by beefhole » Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:46 am
I'm doing an early morning flight from SFO to PDX(Portland), and I'm using real-world weather. PDX is broadcasting 1/4 visibility, stratus clouds overcast 129 ft, with winds calm. I'm like "whew! no winds, I land." So I get myself all set up on the ILS for 28L (is the 737-400 CAT III ILS qualified?) and I can't see anything, because I'm in clouds and even below the clouds visibility is near zero. But there's no wind, so I know I'll be on track. Heh, think again. Apparently what I did not know was that the ILS for 28L actually is a little bit to the right of the runway, and I landed on the taxiway. >:( Umm, oops. So I reload my last save and do a GPS approach instead, becasue while the ILS may be off of the runway the glideslope is still good. I finally set down, taxi in, an get things ready for my departure to LAS in 25 mins... nope, visibility drops to 1/16 mile and I can't see the aircraft parked next to me. Grounded for 15 minutes until visibility eases up to 3/4 mile. That was interesting! ::)