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ILS at CYYJ seems off centre

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Hi all,

   I was doing a couple of flights to Victoria BC (CYYJ), landing runway 27. Although it was VFR conditions, I tuned in the ILS frequency for that runway and set up my NAV1 to follow it.  Good thing it was VFR conditions.  I noticed that the ILS was showing the glideslope as being quite a bit to the right of me when I was bang on centreline.  I have noticed some ILS do tend to have a glideslope that is a bit right of the runway (CYGK comes to mind), but this seemed to be right off. I've tried this with two aircrafts - Cessna 172 and the Mooney Bravo - both with G1000.

  Anyone else seen this?  I admit that I may have made a rookie mistake that I don't know about, but I've been playing around with ILS for a bit now, and haven't seen it be this much a discrepancy between the visual and ILS glideslopes.

-hughVFR

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3 hours ago, hughVFR said:

I noticed that the ILS was showing the glideslope as being quite a bit to the right of me when I was bang on centreline. 

I have noticed some ILS do tend to have a glideslope that is a bit right of the runway (CYGK comes to mind),

Just to avoid confusion for you and others, the glide slope that you mention is not the issue, it’s the localizer that is off to either side. The localizer is the imaginary line coming down the middle of the runway extending out (directional purpose). The glide slope is the imaginary line tilted into the sky that you’ll fly down for proper descent guidance but not direction.

Just thought I’d mention it to you so that you know the difference. Especially if you get an approach that is only localizer and no glide slope.


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8 minutes ago, cmpbellsjc said:

Just to avoid confusion for you and others, the glide slope that you mention is not the issue, it’s the localizer that is off to either side. The localizer is the imaginary line coming down the middle of the runway extending out (directional purpose). The glide slope is the imaginary line tilted into the sky that you’ll fly down for proper descent guidance but not direction.

Just thought I’d mention it to you so that you know the difference. Especially if you get an approach that is only localizer and no glide slope.

Yes, Localizer, although I always thought the localizer was the equipment generating the localized line that I erroneously called Glideslope.  AFAIK there was nothing wrong with the glideslope.  I've encountered a few localizer-only ILS equipped runways too.

-Hugh

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