Ok, so I'm going to limit what was done on this today, but will ask to see what y'all think.
Was sitting safety pilot today. Picked up IFR clearance, because there was a chance we may hit the edge of the clouds (we never did, but it was a just in case because of the angle). Anyhow, remained VFR but on IFR plan.
So chart says 2200 until the fix, then decend to 680 (this is for WVI LOC2 if anyone wants to take look at the California charts).
So the controller gave decend to 2000, which I though was worth questioning (though maybe he was confused since ILS10R MRY has a 2000 alt and is covered by the same controller). He confirmed it was 2000 he said. Then again after the steer to intercept, he gave 2000 NALLS, cleared approach.
So controller gave 2000, chart says 2200. I ask for clarification, and state the chart says 2200, and is there an update on the min. to what I have printed? He simply states, nope, what you have is correct (I had kinda hoped he was going to at least give an explain as to why he didn't use 2200)
We cancelled IFR at that time, before changing to CTAF, since it was nice in the area.
It was flown as given, at 2000.
What would you have done?
Josh
Oh, BTW, this controller knew we were going practice approaches, since this approach was immediately following the missed on another approach. It was not a busy time, maybe 1 or 2 others in his airspace.
Was sitting safety pilot today. Picked up IFR clearance, because there was a chance we may hit the edge of the clouds (we never did, but it was a just in case because of the angle). Anyhow, remained VFR but on IFR plan.
So chart says 2200 until the fix, then decend to 680 (this is for WVI LOC2 if anyone wants to take look at the California charts).
So the controller gave decend to 2000, which I though was worth questioning (though maybe he was confused since ILS10R MRY has a 2000 alt and is covered by the same controller). He confirmed it was 2000 he said. Then again after the steer to intercept, he gave 2000 NALLS, cleared approach.
So controller gave 2000, chart says 2200. I ask for clarification, and state the chart says 2200, and is there an update on the min. to what I have printed? He simply states, nope, what you have is correct (I had kinda hoped he was going to at least give an explain as to why he didn't use 2200)
We cancelled IFR at that time, before changing to CTAF, since it was nice in the area.
It was flown as given, at 2000.
What would you have done?
Josh
Oh, BTW, this controller knew we were going practice approaches, since this approach was immediately following the missed on another approach. It was not a busy time, maybe 1 or 2 others in his airspace.