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Old 23rd Aug 2007, 07:15
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Flying GPS when you are supposed to look for the LLZ

Delta did this to me two days in a row now. Care to comment?

As you see on my sketch, pretty simple stuff. On the intercept heading about 2 nm from the LLZ, he turns northbound. Away from the airport. According to him, because he is flying via his mapping (GPS?) I ask him why he's turning away, and he answers that he was infact turning IN because he was through the final! (Again he must be reffering to his GPS because he was never even close). Pushed hard he addmits that he never "saw" the LLZ. Is this just a case of faulty mapping and poor airmanship, or is it happening all the time? (new to me)

dangerous stuff to be turning on your own under radorvectors in busy final environment.

Rgrds!
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