Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:21 pm
#1818893
If I was flying an instrument based approach or in an airliner or at night, I would have tools to help judge my descent such as PAPI or ILS which are going to guide me along a 3deg descent (there are exceptions with slightly steeper angles) along a long final.
If I'm not, I want to be flying a steeper descent, which needs judged by eye. Something that comes with experience.
In saying all that, I've very rarely done a straight in approach. When I have it is normally when doing a visual approach when wanting to test LOC / Glideslope instruments (so I'm going to use those to help and will be descending with the glideslope). The few times I have done a straight in approach, I just fly, without over thinking it, getting to be on the center line at circuit height, twice my normal distance from the runway threshold when turning final, before starting my normal descent.
If I'm not, I want to be flying a steeper descent, which needs judged by eye. Something that comes with experience.
In saying all that, I've very rarely done a straight in approach. When I have it is normally when doing a visual approach when wanting to test LOC / Glideslope instruments (so I'm going to use those to help and will be descending with the glideslope). The few times I have done a straight in approach, I just fly, without over thinking it, getting to be on the center line at circuit height, twice my normal distance from the runway threshold when turning final, before starting my normal descent.