You'll pass over the station when you're right above the airport. Monitor the DME for distance to the station. Intercept R-136 and center the needle as you fly to the VOR. When the NAV-2 needle begins to move, turn left to 136°. Instead, use NAV-2, which is set for Champaign R-136. You can use the DME, but ignore the NAV-1 needle entirely for now. NAV-1 is set to the localizer for use later on. Have the approach plate handy (Figure 4–2), and study it intermittently en route whenever you have a moment or two to spare. Take off on Runway 28 maintain heading 280° to 2600 feet and level off. If you wish, you call the ATIS (Automatic Terminal Informatin System) at Champaign-Urbana on communications frequency 124.85 to get the current recorded message. You're at Frasca Field, just outside Urbana. As shown by the profile view, your decision point is the middle marker: When you get the signal from that beacon, either you have the runway in sight and can land, or you don't see the runway so need to pull up and execute the missed-approach procedure indicated on the plate. The glide slope needle should be just about centered at that point, and you'll begin to use it to regulate your descent.ĭecision Point. As the profile view indicates, you'll begin your descent from 2600 feet just before passing over the outer marker-about 6.5 miles DME. As it approaches center, start a right turn to 316°, the localizer heading then track the localizer inbound.ĭescent.

You'll already have NAV-1 set to the localizer, and, as you proceeded back in on heading 271°, you'll need to monitor the localizer needle. Hold 091° degrees for 2 minutes then start a 180° turn to the right, to an inbound heading 271°. Then, at about 8 miles DME, you'll turn left to heading 091°, as shown by Figure 4–2. While proceeding outbound, you'll first pass over the middle marker, and then at 6 miles DME you'll pass over the outer marker (Veals).Īs shown by the profile view, if you are not already at 2600 feet, you begin a descent to that altitude while on this outbound leg. On arriving at this airport from the north, you'll fly directly to the Champaign VOR, which is located right on the field, and then you'll track the 136° radial outbound from the station. Note that the official plate looks more complicated than the figure, mainly because it has a lot more information on it than you'll actually need here.Īrrival. The means is called a procedure turn, a technique you'll use on the present flight.įigure 4–2 is a simplified version of the published plate for the ILS approach to Runway 32 at Champaign-Urbana (the University of Illinois) the actual plate may be found in Chapter 5. However, the approach plate for many ILSs provides a means for simplifying the entry into the funnel when you're arriving from the wrong direction. When there's an ILS being used for the active runway, this can mean a detour of quite a few miles in order to come around and enter the funnel properly. Just as often, however, the wind will be such that they'll be landing in the wrong direction, so that you have to circle around the airport and land from the far side. When arriving at an airport, it's always nice when you can do a straight-in approach.

Localizer 18 miles