@jc1:
Hi Agave_Blue,
He doesn’t explain why he started the turn at 23 miles. (5:42 in the video). Why did he choose 23 miles?
Don’t know. In a sense, it doesn’t matter. My point earlier was to that this was a nice tutorial for the instrumentation and how it’s used. It’s those concepts that matter. If you can go from knowing next to nothing and after studying this video go out in a low vis TE and 1.) find an airbase via TACAN, 2.) make an orbit/race-track around that air base and 3.) intercept a runway radial and pick up the ILS signal, the specifics don’t matter. You’ve shown you can use the instruments in a useful way.
Next step is to apply the specifics …. proper initial approach fix, fly a published arc, intercept the ILS radial at the correct distance and altitude, maintain proper speeds, etc.
IOW - if you can’t use the instruments, something like, “you should be flying a 15 mile arc at 300 knts and 5000 feet” isn’t really very useful.