Glideslope Test
I flew some ILS approaches at CNO today to test my Garmin 430W’s glideslope receiver. Here are the 1st two approaches to CNO ILS26R. I’m going to reference video times the way you will see them in the playback frame, in terms of time-to-end.
There is a “false capture” initially, before I’m established on the approach, followed by a retraction of the GS indicator. Then [-2:10] starts a series of kinda twitchy capture attempts. It finally captures solid about 40 seconds later [-1:30]. At this point I’m still outside of DEWYE, where GS intercept is at 2100′ - I don’t get there for another minute [-:30]. Normal?
Side note: the #2 nav is “flagged” almost the whole time outside of DEWYE and then truly decided it had a signal.
The 2nd approach is pretty much the same - false capture and a couple of twitches, but 2nd time around the video is a little better:
The last clip is of an approach to SNA ILS 19R. I should be able to receive the GS at SNAKE at D10.8, but currently I’m having trouble outside about D6.5:
BTW these were taken with a Flip Video Ultra - about the size of my mobile phone, $150 on Amazon. I attached it to a table-top tripod positioned on my chest. The whole contraption hung around my neck on a bungee cord. I would not be surprised to find that I was the only guy shooting myself shooting instrument approaches like that today…