Backcourse ILS

[sir_knight57]

When I fly a BC ILS the localizer is right down the middle but the glideslope is NOT as I am using autopilot.  

Autopilot practically takes me all the way to the threshold of the selected rwy keeping the localizer and the glideslope centered, but not when I fly the backcourse ILS, why not  ???

[commoner]

[quote]When I fly a BC ILS the localizer is right down the middle but the glideslope is NOT as I am using autopilot.

[Nav]

sir-knight, flying the back course will keep you on the line, but there is no glideslope on it - you have to handle the descent manually.

[sir_knight57]

No doubt about it . . . I always get really good advice / answers everytime I post a question to you folks, thanks.  

[beefhole]

If you keep N1 at about 55%, with gear and flaps down, and trim the aeroplane properly, the rate of descent should be about 500 feet/minute, which is what you want.  Too steep, add power, too shallow, reduce it.

Not in jets-only in props is this the proper method for maintaining glideslope.  In jets, pitch for altitude, power for airpseed.

[commoner]

[quote]
Not in jets-only in props is this the proper method for maintaining glideslope.

[wji]

"sticking the nose in the air if you are going too slow?"

Did my flght instructor say it better? with: "Get that nose down you hog lubricator!"

("hog lubricator" is a euphemism for excrement  ::)

One can't beat those old military pilots when it comes to flght training. Yes, that was the last time I came in suck-holing up to the numbers!

Bill
P.S. . . . did anyone say there was no GP on the BC?
Or, put another way: What part of No GS on the BC don't you understand?

[beefhole]

...mmm...POWER for altitude and PITCH for speed is what I was encouraged to think.......

Like I said earlier, this is only for props.  While naturally a bit of power is to be added when you increase attitude, pitch for altitude is still the correct procedure in jets.  And if you have A/T on, it does it automatically anyways.