Hi,I did that flight in a Baron 58. Not sure if that makes a difference or not. Flying in and out of Banf is tricky! Maybe Robert or someone else can chime in here, because I don't remember what I did to get around this. Leaving Banf is extremely tricky as well.
On 8/18/2013 12:09 AM, Noel Romey wrote:
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 Blind and Visually impaired Pilots mailinglist //www.freelists.org/list/bvipilots To post a message to the list, send a message to bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send a message to bvipilots-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put the word unsubscribe in the subject of your message. For other options such as digest, send a message to bvipilots-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put the word help in the subject of your message.
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