New instrument PTS

If you've got a GPS on board partial panel is easy. Just find what compass heading will give you a track (TRK) that is the same as your inbound course. When the TRK matches, the localizer needle won't move at all. Remember the GPS can't tell where your nose is pointed, only where you are actually going.
 
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I think I will be good on my CFII ckrd as long as I don't get a partial panel ILS....difficult to maintain localizer within 500 ft of DH with that heading indicator failed, especically on north or south oriented runway.

[/ QUOTE ]I've never heard anyone ever say that before. Heck,, if I were really partial panel in the soup, I'd rather have a localizer to follow to the runway more than anything else I can think of.
 
Personally I think the deletion of the steep turns may be a bit of a mistake. I know they are a pain to do under the hood. But I can say from personal experience, that the first time you are IMC in busy airspace and you hear " Cessna _____, traffic your twelve o'clock and less than a mile same altitude make an immediate left turn heading zero-niner-zero, expodite! " you will be glad that you practiced those pesky things. That has happened to me twice in the last two months here in the Baltimore/D.C. class Bravo. Just my two cents.
 
My opinion/wish: Do away with NDB approaches.
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HATE`EM!!
 
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My opinion/wish: Do away with NDB approaches.
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[/ QUOTE ]Heck, that's easy. All you need to do is take a checkride in an airplane without an ADF. It's =that= simple.
 
When I took my instrument ride the DE said to me "Do you have an ADF in the plane?" I told him "Yeah I do, but I really hate the thing." He said he did too, and that we should just do a LOC approach and a VOR approach for the non-percision approaches. I couldn't have been happier.

NDB's=the devil. And it's THE LAST thing I'd EVER do partial panel. Heck, I'd fly a long long way partial panel before I shot a partial panel NDB approach.

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John Herreshoff
 
I kind of like NDB's...they're simple once you get the hang of them. I'd take a partial panel NDB over a partial panel ILS any day of the week, especially on a north or south oriented runway.
 
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