tehmightypirate
Line Up and Wait
So, I was planning a VFR flight to the airport I soloed from and probably have most of my hours from. Just a quick hop from KBGR to KBHB for a $100 hamburger with my girlfriend. As I'm working on my IFR I figured I'd shoot the ILS approach as well if the winds are right for it. However, I was studying the approach plate and got quite confused. See below:
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1312/00992IL22.PDF
So, it's the ILS (not ILS/DME) into runway 22 at Bar Harbor. "DME required" in big bold letters. All good so far. But with DME required why would we not use the JESUL fix minimum always?
So let say we're coming in along the BGR feeder route to BECRA IAF, we do the HILPT, then we're inbound on the ILS. Obviously with the ILS minimums everything makes sense. However, lets say the glide slope is out. I could use the JESUL FIX MINIMUMS via the localizer and DME right? But if DME was out then I could not fly the approach because DME was required, right? Are they given in case you get there and DME isn't working but wasn't on a NOTAM?
Finally, do they really want me to fly 30 nm to the Bangor VOR for the missed approach? I mean, granted if you were doing this in LIFR then you'd probably divert to Bangor ASAP if you had to go missed but, still, that's quite a ways. I suspect it's because Bangor has poor radar coverage at Bar Harbor but, still, that seems really far. Why couldn't you just hold back at BECRA and get ready for another approach and/or head back on the 312 radial to BGR?
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1312/00992IL22.PDF
So, it's the ILS (not ILS/DME) into runway 22 at Bar Harbor. "DME required" in big bold letters. All good so far. But with DME required why would we not use the JESUL fix minimum always?
So let say we're coming in along the BGR feeder route to BECRA IAF, we do the HILPT, then we're inbound on the ILS. Obviously with the ILS minimums everything makes sense. However, lets say the glide slope is out. I could use the JESUL FIX MINIMUMS via the localizer and DME right? But if DME was out then I could not fly the approach because DME was required, right? Are they given in case you get there and DME isn't working but wasn't on a NOTAM?
Finally, do they really want me to fly 30 nm to the Bangor VOR for the missed approach? I mean, granted if you were doing this in LIFR then you'd probably divert to Bangor ASAP if you had to go missed but, still, that's quite a ways. I suspect it's because Bangor has poor radar coverage at Bar Harbor but, still, that seems really far. Why couldn't you just hold back at BECRA and get ready for another approach and/or head back on the 312 radial to BGR?
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