Hmm so I had a bit of a little problem with ILS today. Flying a 737 from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky. Pretty uneventful, climbed to 11,000, requested 15,000 as I like to fly above the clouds then all went well until I came in on my approach.
She picked up and intercepted the localizer just fine, and I set my altitude at around 1,300 feet and intercepted the glideslope from under. And the plane took a dive.
Just missed this poor Csesna, probably made him crap his pants we were that close. Anyways, good thing is I ripped it off auto pilot and brought it in for the landing on the icy runway. Is the problem that maybe I just intercepted the glideslope TOO low thereby making me intercept it too close to the runway and thats why it took that dive?
Either way, Im getting the hang of things. I know how to use my GPS/NAV modes and do my approaches and even intercept glideslopes and locs manually (albeit with some error).
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