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I have seen this many times on approaches where ATC is sequencing people or
just for ease of navigation and you intercept the localizer a long way out (greater than 10 NM). Works great. As other posters noted, clearance to intercept the localizer is not clearance for the approach, and certainly not clearance to fly the glideslope. Paul "Matt Whiting" wrote in message ... Nathan Young wrote: On 2 Oct 2005 17:17:13 -0700, " wrote: I want out to play last week. I requested clearance from EMT to RAL for ILS to rwy 9. Shortly after I was level at 4000, I was cleared to intercept localizer. As I tracked localizer, the glideslope started down and I started down with it. At 3,700, ATC called to ask me to remain 4000. I climbed back to 4000 and about 30 seconds later, was cleared to decent. I did not think about it at the time, but does clear to intercept localizer mean I cannot decent until I am clear to decent? BTW, the glideslope was functioning. Once you have an approach clearance, you can descend to the altitudes shown on the chart. However... It is very common for the controller to give you a vector to the localizer and an altitude restriction until you are established on the localizer. Typically, this would be something like: "N123, fly 130 to intercept localizer, maintain 4000 until established, cleared ILS 9 @ RAL." Perhaps that happened, and you just missed the altitude restriction? This seems less likely, but maybe the clearance was only to intercept the localizer and no approach clearance was given. I can't imagine why a controller would do this, but stranger things have happened. Matt |
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