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VOR approach- when to descend from the FAF
"Mark Hansen" wrote in message ... I spend that minute or so making sure my heading and approach airspeed are under control, and then simply catch up to the descent afterward when the needle comes back. It'll be interesting to see how other people do it, but that's the way I was trained. I was taught to begin the descent at station passage (using the 5 'T's). It's never taken more than just a very few seconds for the CDI to start coming back in. A minute seems awfully long. Yeah, I was just throwing that out as a ballpark figure. It shouldn't take very long at all, which means it's even less of a problem to catch up to the descent afterward. I prefer to have the altitude under me rather than above me throughout the approach, but, at that point it's not like you're going to fly into anything if you're 50 feet lower immediately after crossing the station than if you waited. Or, you have bigger issues. If I were taking the IFR checkride, though, I'd definately hold the altitude until I could demonstrate to the examiner that I had recaptured the CDI was 100% established. That's the kind of thing my examiner would have expected and how I was taught to do it. (caveat: Since they almost always use the examiner, they teach to his specific expectations, which may be a factor.) -c CP-ASEL-IA |
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VOR approach- when to descend from the FAF
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:27:00 -0800, "gatt"
wrote: "Terence Wilson" wrote in message .. . When flying a VOR approach in which the FAF is defined by the VOR, is it appropriate to start the descent to the MAP, or next stepdown, immediately after overflying the VOR or should I wait until I have positive course guidance for the final approach segment? I ask because it can sometimes take 1-2nm for the CDI to move, which may require a rushed descent to the MAP on some approaches. I spend that minute or so making sure my heading and approach airspeed are under control, and then simply catch up to the descent afterward when the needle comes back. It'll be interesting to see how other people do it, but that's the way I was trained. -c Trained well, in my opinion. That's exactly the way to do it, IMHO. |
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