Originally Posted by
Photon
I was having a discussion the other day with another pilot friend of mine, and also some other flight instructors.
Seems to be a divided community as to the two major ways of flying the glide slope.
What do you guys do, and what kind of airplane do you do this with?
- Use power to maintain the glideslope
- Use pitch to maintain the glideslope
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Discuss!
The FAA mantra: Pitch is altitude; power is airspeed.
Established inbound the pitch and power is set to maintain a constant airspeed and constant descent rate on the GS.
Due to changes in the wind, the AC goes below the GS.
The first adjustment would be to make a small change to pitch to decrease the descent rate. That would be followed (quickly/simultaneously) by a small increase in power to maintain approach speed.
Hog