Airline Pilot Central Forums - Instrument Troubles

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Originally Posted by de727ups (Post 460490)

Another thing is to focus on small heading changes and small VSI changes to control the needles. If you put too much focus on the LOC and GS needles, you'll over correct and end up constantly going back and fourth. Again, make your heading and VSI control your primary focus, and not the ILS needles.

This is solid advice. It should be no secret what it "approximately" takes to keep the airplane on the GS/LOC at a given groundspeed. By the time you're a mile out (from your stated scenario), you should have your heading bracketed to hold the localizer. One simple rule to determine your V/S required to hold the glide slope is Groundspeed+0/2... for example, 100 kts groundspeed approach would be 1000/fpm divided by 2 = 500 fpm (approximate).

Also remember pilots are creatures of habit. Whatever methods you learn, do them the same way every approach and you'll have approaches licked in no time.