[bvipilots] solving the unsolvable: visual approach at cyba flight 004 around the world as a bvi pilot
- From: Noel Romey <nromey@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:09:35 -0400
Hey guys,
My idea of a nice day is not spending it three miles from the airport
impaled in a mountain. 've flown from kalw to cyba (banff) twice now
and I can reproduce the issue perfectly every time.
About 30 miles out, after gong up and down from 11 to 12000 a couple
times, skiming mountains I guess, I execute the descent checklist.
Speed drops to 120m abd checklist is completed. At 10 miles, I am told
to turn to 360 and go straig t in for visual on runway 36. At this
point, I execute the approach checklist and at the same time, tell
Michelle to "Prepare to land on runway 36". She obliges, I think, Oh
yeah, I'm also told to descend to 6400, all these things at the same
time. I'm in a mooney bravo so climb rate isn't the greatest I guess,
so maybe this is the problem. I descend pretty quickly to about 1800
agl, gear goes down, all is green, then it says "man, it's getting
bumpy". Engines rev up to full, fsx beeps, and with throttle at full,
and iyp telling me that she's no longer controlling my speed, and the
"if I don't want her to control landing I should turn auto pilot off",
my speed is 0, and I'm 4 oclock from runway at 2700 feet 3 miles away.
NOw I know taht the runway isn't 3 miles long, and though Michelle
warmly welcomes me to Banff, I assume I'm in Bnaff, in someone's back
yard or something or in a mountain, I'm not landed.
I know this is possible as someone blind has completed more flights
than 4, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or why iyp is getting
confused. Is atc giving me the descend too late and I should jsut
disregard them and descend more slowly? I was concerned that I'd hit
a mountain on the way in as I didn't know where the mountains ended.
Airport elevation is 4500 ft, so I'd have 6500 feet to descend which
should be plenty to be done in 10 miles. Any thoughts guys?
Really enjoying this challenge of flying.
Noel
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