Offset Localizer
 

(I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere. Prepping for an interview.)

If we have an offset localizer (up to 3 degrees), when the value is positive (e.g, 1.75 deg), we'd expect to see the runway on which side of aircraft?

I'd assume a positive value means the final approach course would bring you in just to the right of runway, and the runway would be left of center from the cockpit perspective. But I can't find the answer anywhere online. Thanks for the help.

FAA charts have the nice little arrow on the smaller airport diagram to visually depict how youre approaching the airport.

The main thing is the rwy hdg v LOC. It the LOC is 270 and your course is 267, the rwy will be offset right. If your course is 273 it'll be left. Then consider wind correction on final and that'll give you your answer on where to look out the window.

Good luck.

Sigh. The answer to that question is visually obvious on the chart.

Interviewers should not be asking questions like that without the chart in front of you. That's kind of like having you draw the overhead panel from memory :rolleyes:

Not picking on the OP. Hopefully it's a well-paying job if they play games like that.

Final answer?

Where you'll see the runway depends on winds aloft, regardless of the offset.

best answer. Stupid question

Pop quiz, hot shot. Are PAPI Lights:
Red Over White
-or-
White Over Red

If you don’t know without looking you’re not a real pilot.

Neither?
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This ^^^^^^^^^^

Red over red, you're dead.
Red over white, you're alright.
White over white, you're out of sight.

RTFQ
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The question didn't stipulate that one has to fly the approach upright.

Aaaaaand you would be the exact person they’re NOT looking to hire.

I would be exactly the person who didn't apply for the job, because it would be a significant step backward.

I’ll take approaches I’ll never fly for $1000 Alex… seriously, my company is removing localizers from training next year because they’re outdated with rnav approaches now.

please tell us what company is asking such stupid questions

so we know where NOT to apply at

I'm still trying to decipher what's positive vs negative?

United is not training localizer approaches any more?

JB- perhaps learning the difference between VASI & PAPI is a more important question…?

It's a visual approach aid; both keep you out of the dirt.

It was a bad question, hence it's construction, and did not deserve a sserious reply.

The notion of abandoning localizers because they are "outdated" is equally idiotic.

However, when considering where the runway will appear in the windscreen when breaking out, as noted before, it depends entirely on winds aloft. If there is no wind, regardless of whether the runway is offset, if one is on a localizer, the runway will appear at 12 o clock, but angled slightly away. Any significant wind aloft can put the localizer at the 10 o'clock or 2 o'clock positions, or greater, and that is a far more important thing to consider, than the ramifications of an offset localizer on a calm day. Winds aloft determine where that runway will appear when one breaks out, and where one should be looking.

As for imagined or invented terms such as "positive or negative" with reference to the localizer, those serve only to confuse the reader and provide no useful information with an explanation as to what the questioner means.

It speaks volumes of a person's character when they can't admit to even a minor mistake.

In the Western world (standard alphabet or whatever other criteria) from left to right is increasing, right to left is decreasing.
Same as clockwise compass numbers increasing and counter clockwise decreasing.
So in a no wind condition offset “+” is to the right.
Anything less then full scale we’ll call it good.
Final answer.

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It speaks far more when one refused to cop to a mistake one didn't make. Read.

That’s what I was told at my last CQ, at least on the bus.

Obviously the offset is the number of degrees from the final approach course - it isn't a positive or negative number.
You can tell this somewhat from the aiming arrow on the figure (at least on the AIS plates.

Same here but at the other guys.