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Approach speeds for ILS
We get foggy here at Tacoma Narrows this time of year (which is the reason I
post more on these groups in the winter than in the summer). One thing we see a lot of is guys who fly the ILS too fast. I have no problem with flying the ILS at 90 or 100 knots if the ceiling is well above minimums, but it seems to me that if the ceiling is 200 feet overcast you ought to be flying the approach slowly enough that you can land at that speed. You don't need to configure for a short field landing, but you are not going to slow from 90 knots to 60 in a Skyhawk in only 200 feet of altitude, especially if you can't risk ballooning back up into the soup. You just want to hold your breath when you hear somebody coming down the ILS. You don't see him, but you hear the engine start to roar as he begins his missed approach. Then he suddenly breaks through and tries to land anyway. Sometimes they make it, probably touching down on the last half of the runway, and sometimes they don't, having to make a go around back up into the soup, only now the missed approach is all messed up, too. Two lessons he 1) If the field is really at minimums, you have 200 feet to slow down to landing speed. That is not much time. Better you should be ready to land before you break out. 2) If you decide to go missed, then go missed. Don't change your mind just because you got a glimpse of the runway as you were flying overhead. -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA If you go around beating the Bush, don't complain if you rile the animals. |
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