T-45C IUT BIFP-03
GCA Procedures
COMMON ERROR: Late slowing
to on-speed AOA and slow to trim.
COMMON ERROR: Allowing
aircraft to descend below assigned
altitude.
(5) Extend speed brakes and adjust
power as required to establish
desired rate of descent
COMMON ERROR: Not reaching
MDA prior to MAP.
NOTE: Establish a descent rate
that will keep you slightly ahead of
the controller’s schedule of
descent (500 - 700 fpm depending
on wind).
(6) Make small vertical velocity
corrections by adjusting power
(7) Make small AOA corrections by
adjusting nose attitude
COMMON ERROR: Reversing
control of nose attitude and power.
c.
Scan
(1) Use level turn scan for turn to final
(2) Use level flight scan prior to
beginning descent
(3) Use constant rate descent scan
(on-speed AOA) for descent to
MDA
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