IFR Riddle....or question?

[siucavflight]

Man, I thought we were going to bash “embry-RIDDLE”

Thats what I was hoping for.

 

[minitour]

You are IFR at night in IMC. Enroute you lose both your radios...an ILS...

*chop*

Your primary and alternate airport has pilot controlled lighting. How do you turn the lights on at the airport?

Forget the lights...how are you gonna fly an ILS without radios?

-mini

 

[Metro752]

Forget the lights...how are you gonna fly an ILS without radios?

-mini

well if you had gone to Embry Riddle you would know how. Just goes to show you ERAU has the best civillian training in the world.

 

[minitour]

well if you had gone to Embry Riddle you would know how. Just goes to show you ERAU has the best civillian training in the world.

DOH!

-mini

 

[FN FAL]

Forget the lights...how are you gonna fly an ILS without radios?

-mini

Simple, set the FAF in your GPS and fly the best mock glideslope you can do after crossing the fix...so what if you land halfway down the runway on centerline, at least it isn't the side of barn silo. You can use your groundspeed and interpolate a descent rate off the ILS approach plate.

 

[minitour]

Simple, set the FAF in your GPS and fly the best mock glideslope you can do after crossing the fix...so what if you land halfway down the runway on centerline, at least it isn't the side of barn silo. You can use your groundspeed and interpolate a descent rate off the ILS approach plate.

Sure...if you've got one of those fancy shmancy GPS thingy-doo-dads...

-mini

 

[FN FAL]

ATC is actually required to turn them on for you. It's in 7110.65.

That's cool, I'd love to see Minneapolis center turn on the lights at Sheboygan or Manitowoc for me. That would be cool...I'll ask them to do that on my next ILS.

What do they do, dial a phone number and then use a touch tone phone menu or do they just type a few key strokes into their computer an "viola!"?

 

[Simon Says]

ATC is actually required to turn them on for you. It's in 7110.65.

You win!!!! LOL, I was reading the ATC guide (or something like that) and I thought it was an intersting point. I never thought about turning on lights when you lose your radio. Pretty cool though.

Now if I can only figure out why a transponder only goes up to number 7.

 

[FN FAL]

You win!!!! LOL, I was reading the ATC guide (or something like that) and I thought it was an intersting point. I never thought about turning on lights when you lose your radio. Pretty cool though.

Now if I can only figure out why a transponder only goes up to number 7.

I would like to know the technology with which ATC uses to turn on the lights at the non-towered airports that I list as destinations...all of which have scheduled 121 operations.

 

[Simon Says]

I would like to know the technology with which ATC uses to turn on the lights at the non-towered airports that I list as destinations...all of which have scheduled 121 operations.

Maybe they call an airplane in the area to start keying up the lights. Like when the use another airplane to broadcast a message to someone else that is out of their radio coverage.