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USN When did Whiting Field get ILS?
- Thread starter ChuckMK23
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That has been there at least 10 years. Since was a student. It is one of the stranger approaches in the country. That restricted area there caused all sorts of headaches.
"Turn left heading 020 maintain one thousand seven hundred feet until established on a published portion of the approach. Cleared ILS Yankee runway three two."
I think I'd still rather have an ILS system that's down rather than the complete inability in my aircraft to use said ILS. I know, I know, it's coming...
Yay, ILS is coming!
...to help you lob rockets.
......but then real ILS is coming (at some point?) too, maybe!
The one time I needed it, they refused to let me shoot it IMC, or anything to 32 including the PAR for that matter. Took the next best thing: Copter TACAN 004 and that worked. The controllers seemed stunned I wouldn't cancel, I couldn't tell them enough: "I am in ACTUAL IMC. I need an approach that I do NOT have to cancel IFR to complete!"
I'm guessing the Restricted Area was HOT. I've been there, as well.
I've also had the pleasure of requesting the PAR for 32 in actual conditions, being given the runaround because winds where from 14-ish, then breaking out at 600-ish AGL, realizing winds weren't going to work (at night, crappy weather, non-compliant fixed-wing), asking for the downwind, being told to execute a go around, declining because...why would I go BACK into the goo, and then I think penetration was authorized and eventual compliance with my demands...I mean...aeronautically.
But that whole thing really pissed me off.
You haven't lived until you shoot the PAR 23 down there to mins and the Sunday night crew has the runway lights on the dimmest setting that is normally reserved for NVGs... because there are so many NVG ops when it's OVC 003?? Why are the mins 300-1 you ask? Those aren't exactly "low" mins. Two part answer: because there is no approach lighting, just approach obstacles.
Yes, 23. They spin the radar box about 90°, do checks, and away you go. That's how those things work.
Pro tip: If the runway lights are barely on, you'll need to turn off your own landing lights to see them through the fog.
Yes, 23. They spin the radar box about 90°, do checks, and away you go. That's how those things work.
Pro tip: If the runway lights are barely on, you'll need to turn off your own landing lights to see them through the fog.