Intercepting the ILS

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The new CFII criticized this procedure and told me that the plate
specified 1800, and it was wrong to intercept at 2000. Which one was
right?

Assuming that by intercepting at 2,000 feet you're not infringing any other
published rules (e.g. airspace or specific instructions on the approach
plate) I would suggest you look at the published range for the ILS signal.
So long as you're within the published range of the glideslope signal when
doing a 2000' intercept, I can't see you're doing anything wrong -
particularly as you were presumably doing as you'd been told by an
authoritative controller. After all, it's common to fly the first bit of an
approach according to the book and then to take different instructions from
the controller.

D.