wain 879 Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 that feeling you get when you trust your instruments, and it just works as should.... 6 Link to post Share on other sites
rosariomanzo 545 Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 Nicely done! Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,283 Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 Great shots Wayne and a well deserved pat on the back. I trust my instruments but my whites knuckles never have. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 That's the way it should be Wayne! Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted January 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 thanks guys, I actually really enjoyed the flight, just a simple plane on a positioning flight, stated it with snow, then at 6000ft all was clear above the clouds, then broken until about 15nm out, down through the murk, was watching a weather front building up on AS16 moving map, was very immersive..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 On 1/22/2018 at 04:11, rosariomanzo said: Nicely done! +1 There are guys who do this regularly, for a living, but it's always very gratifying for a sim pilot when it all comes together like that. The automation and instrumentation work, when you know how to use them properly, but it's a perishable skill; familiarity and practice help a lot. John Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 Nice one Wayne, but was it the correct airfield? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 Nice nice nice! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 I'm fairly new to ILS Landings, and when I do it in this kind of situation it feels so great. Great shots! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 I did a demo of an ILS approach to minimums once at a flight sim club meeting a long time ago and thought I was doing great until I heard a couple of voices behind me say, almost simultaneously, "That's a bust!" It turns out, and I didn't realize, that for an FAA check ride for an Instrument Rating, if you get below the glide slope even by a tiny amount, it's a fail. I was probably a needle width or two below, not grossly out but they informed me that the feds do not typically allow any wiggle room on that. That being the case, I guess CFIIs would be singing from the same sheet of music. I suppose that means that if you're hand flying the approach you should deliberately err slightly to the high side. If it's a coupled approach and you're merely "monitoring the autopilot" you should know and react instantly if Otto gets too low and, presumably call it a missed approach. I don't have any real world experience in the instrument environment but these guys were current or former pros with a lot of hours so I guess they must have known what they were talking about. John Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted January 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 On 23/01/2018 at 21:36, hifly said: Nice one Wayne, but was it the correct airfield? Cheers... And yes it was correct cheeky... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
remingtonbox 18 Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 (edited) That feeling is even better in real life when you have paying passengers in the back. Great shot and atmosphere! And John, the PTS/ACS/whatever they call it now says +100 ft -0 ft for altitude discrepancy on either the instrument or II checkrides Edited January 26, 2018 by remingtonbox 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 On 26/01/2018 at 21:40, remingtonbox said: That feeling is even better in real life when you have paying passengers in the back. Great shot and atmosphere! And John, the PTS/ACS/whatever they call it now says +100 ft -0 ft for altitude discrepancy on either the instrument or II checkrides must make your palms even sweatier in real life though, I was so close to going around....... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
remingtonbox 18 Posted January 28, 2018 Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 I had an approach to minimums on my Instagram for sometime, but now I can't find it, you can't imagine the elation you feel when the ground materializes out of a white blanket. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
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