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From: brad@gcc-milo.ARPA (Brad Parker)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Out to dry on the glideslope
Message-ID: <474@gcc-milo.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 11:02:25 EST
Article-I.D.: gcc-milo.474
Posted: Fri Feb 21 11:02:25 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 05:15:31 EST
References: <2473@pixar.pixar>
Reply-To: brad@gcc-milo.UUCP (Brad Parker)
Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma
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Keywords: IFR glideslope safety

In article <2473@pixar.pixar> good@pixar (Never tell your copilot "Cheer up" during the takeoff roll.) writes:
>	I assume that most of you are aware of the 152 which tangled with
>the power lines on final at Ontario the other night.  For those who don't
>know anything about it, nobody was hurt...
>	Directional radio, such as localizers, glideslopes, etc, have false
>"lobes" on either side of the real beam.  There can be several such lobes.
>Evidently the 152 in question, while on an night IFR training flight, was
>flying one of the lobes underneath the GS on approach.  Thus they could have
>had the needle nailed to the bullseye and still tangled with the power line.

I'm just a low time VFR pilot (so I could be wrong), but isn't the usual
procedure to intercept the localizer before following the glideslope down?
Isn't it impossible to get on such "false lobes" for both? (this may be
obvious given that they ended up "hanging out" ;-) )

IFR old salts - what's the story here?
-- 

J Bradford Parker
General Computer (HyperDrive Beach)
harvard!gcc-milo!brad

"She said, 'Just drive.'" -heard on the radio.