denverpilot
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Probably a brain-dead simple question but was just thinking about Instrument stuff today...
Let's say you have an enroute-only IFR certified GPS. You have no ADF. You have DME.
Can you file to CASSE at KAPA on the ILS 35R using the enroute certified GPS to navigate to CASSE, then transition over to your localizer receiver from there?
The Approach plate says "ADF required". But I believe the GPS can substitute for ADF up until the Approach.
Just wrapping my non-IFR brain around the details here.
It's a "real-world" question for us since we had our ADF fail and we yanked it. We have NOT installed a certified GPS yet.
Was just looking over the home 'drome's approaches and realized "we can't file to get TO that approach right now".
My thought here is that the cheapest/simplest fix is an enroute-only GPS in the panel. The *best* fix and likely longer-term one is an Approach certified GPS, of course.
Obviously, filing the SID requires radar vectors and would get you there, but without ADF if you go lost-comm, the question is "How do you navigate to CASSE w/o an ADF or GPS on board, right?
Am I analyzing this correctly, Instrument pilots?
Let's say you have an enroute-only IFR certified GPS. You have no ADF. You have DME.
Can you file to CASSE at KAPA on the ILS 35R using the enroute certified GPS to navigate to CASSE, then transition over to your localizer receiver from there?
The Approach plate says "ADF required". But I believe the GPS can substitute for ADF up until the Approach.
Just wrapping my non-IFR brain around the details here.
It's a "real-world" question for us since we had our ADF fail and we yanked it. We have NOT installed a certified GPS yet.
Was just looking over the home 'drome's approaches and realized "we can't file to get TO that approach right now".
My thought here is that the cheapest/simplest fix is an enroute-only GPS in the panel. The *best* fix and likely longer-term one is an Approach certified GPS, of course.
Obviously, filing the SID requires radar vectors and would get you there, but without ADF if you go lost-comm, the question is "How do you navigate to CASSE w/o an ADF or GPS on board, right?
Am I analyzing this correctly, Instrument pilots?