LOC intercept.
Strangely enough, I find that unless I very carefully provide the intercept angle and the speed to boot and as early as I can get away with, subject to ATC and traffic and MSA and OCL the aircraft will engage in LOC and fly straight through the LOC centreline and try to re-intercept the same only to be doing a rather fancy series of turns until too late on final when a manual landing or a go-around is a must, usually the latter (mainly because my glide has gone up the Swannee by this time too).
In fact, I find, if I don`t get it set up at precise distances/speeds and config then I know I am in for a rather boring time. Unless I am at 20 plus miles, I would not trust / try intercepting when `fast` especially with anything heavy like an A330 and not for an 320, maybe a 319, but now am getting philosophical, and even then I could end up unpleasently surprised. It might work for a C150 though.
Last edited by Natstrackalpha; 18th May 2012 at 16:13.