I thought I'd sample our weather, so, with Active Sky running, flew the Citation from Liverpool to Ronaldsway. It was difficult to hold the runway heading, once off the ground at Speke. Once on AP the flight was OK until down to 140kias with the APPR in and ILS captured. It just couldn't hold it and began to rotate. With AP off and flying manually it couldn't handle Autorudder, so that had to be disconnected and the Localiser held only by resorting to a bootfull of rudder, held on throughout. Groundspeed on finals was a very sedate 100 kts, though the clock was reading the statutary 135.
By the time I was parked up I was cream crackered. Off for a lie down. Gerry Winskill
