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From: danny@joevax.UUCP (Dan Kahn)
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Subject: Re: Out to dry on the glideslope
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 08:16:33 EST
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> 
> Not having my IFR ticket yet (quite) I can't call myself an "old salt",
> but I have had plenty of chances to observe lobes on localizers. They seem to
> be more common than the lobes on the glideslope.

Problems with false lobes on the localizer are COMMON?!

> At any rate, in many of
> the approaches we have flown during training we have intercepted the GS
> *before* reaching the localizer.  This is actually quite handy since you
> can already have the rate of descent established by the time you have that
> other little needle to center.

You do this OFTEN?!