Flight Check 98
This picture says it all for me. The antenna system was fixed, the weather was right, and I was ready. Here FC 98 is doing a low pass on the Localizer backcourse. To check the system out, we had to have clear enough days that the aircraft could see all the terrain around him, yet still fly in on instruments only. He's checking the validity of the signals that the system is sending him. Mt Frosty, Baldy and rough terrain are all around this approach. In bad weather it makes a highway in the sky to bring the aircraft down to the runway and on center. But before I can bless it, we check it out completely. 10 hours later, I was home in North Pole.
Flight Check 98
This picture says it all for me. The antenna system was fixed, the weather was right, and I was ready. Here FC 98 is doing a low pass on the Localizer backcourse. To check the system out, we had to have clear enough days that the aircraft could see all the terrain around him, yet still fly in on instruments only. He's checking the validity of the signals that the system is sending him. Mt Frosty, Baldy and rough terrain are all around this approach. In bad weather it makes a highway in the sky to bring the aircraft down to the runway and on center. But before I can bless it, we check it out completely. 10 hours later, I was home in North Pole.