IFR flight Morristown NJ to Latrobe PA with ILS at Latrobe.

Video from my flight out to Latrobe PA with Eric S of the flying club. Weather back home was great, not so much at our original destination of Johnstown PA. It was just at minimums there so we decided to change plans and land 20 nm west at Latrobe. Turned out to be a good choice. Learn more about our flying adventures at http://www.110knots.com

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[727freak]

Would the DG in the upper right have been an option as a backup if the hsi hadnt stopped spinning?

[mikeb172sp]

@727freak Yes... BUT our only ILS / gps indication (legally in the case of the GPS) is via the HSI. Nav 2 is just a standard CDI without glide slope, so if it kept spinning it could get interesting. Could always shoot a VOR approach.

[coma13794]

Good stuff, as always!

I think I heard you recite/brief the straight-in minimums, although you were going to circle for rwy 5. Was that intentional?

The quality of that camera always has me drooling. The combination of no aifrframe vibration when it's held by hand with the HD is hard to beat. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

[mikeb172sp]

@coma13794 I just remembered.. My mindset was as follows. If I get to POSER and I am still IMC this will most likely turn into a full ILS strait in. However flawed that thinking was.. ;-)

[AviadorLPA]

Interesting how engine sounds through the microphone... looks like a old jet sound.

[mikeb172sp]

@coma13794 I was actually a little slow before the glide slope intercept but I fixed it. (Just dropped to 80 knots vs my normal 90 knots)

[coma13794]

@mikeb172sp I wouldn't sweat being fast on a circling approach (if you were fast), there's oodles of time to slow down after you transition to visual, and it's good practice. Fly in as much IMC as you can, eventually, you stop thinking, "Ok, here we go into IMC." Rusty myself right now with winter just recently behind us, but during the summer/fall, I got to that point, and it's a good place to be. Consider scrapping VMC approaches under the hood and go shoot 'em solo, IMC. It helps.

[mikeb172sp]

@444drummer444 Thanks so much! Can't wait to post the return trip. That was even better in some ways.

[mikeb172sp]

@SkylaneCaptain Thanks. Best of luck with you're training. 

[mikeb172sp]

@coma13794 As always you are correct and very attentive Keith. :-) I didn't pay it much attention at the time knowing that we weren't going to be anywhere near minimums circling or strait in. But I should have said / briefed the circling minimum. Also was 10 knots off on my airspeed which I almost never do. But I guess that's the difference between real IMC and practice.