Originally Posted by
DeltaPaySoon
I just did this approach and can state, without hesitation, that there is a major issue with the glide slope.
Approach had us turn to intercept the loc between the LOM (Klump) and the fix outside of the LOM (Trava). When we were approximately 2 miles north of course at 2300, and 3 miles from Trava, the GS was showing that we were above it. (First glaring issue)
As we were intercepting the loc, I watched the GS go from one dot low to full scale high in about 1/4 mile and about 1.5 to 2.5 from Klump.
If we would have had the approach mode set to capture the GS, the autopilot would have had a very significant nose up attitude to chase the GS.
Since I saw the notice to the SWAPA, we did the same thing and only armed the nav until the glideslope made sense.
We were in hard IFR with 30 xwinds and blowing snow and had to turn the autopilot off to handle the conditions.
BE CAREFUL WITH THIS APPROACH!!!
Nice description, and am I missing somthing here, or does any of this sound familiar? Once I again, I hope ( and Am sure) the NTSB is looking at this info also..and I refuse to jump to any conclusion, but I will say reading this thread has been interesting.