 IFR Approach questions
"david_megginson@yahoo.ca" <david_megginson@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote:
>
> > For the most part, if there's an ILS at an airport that makes sense for the
> > prevailing wind direction, they'll be using that in preference to any other
> > type of approach. If the airport has an ATIS, they'll be advertising which
> > approach is in use there.
>
> At my home airport (Ottawa, ON - CYOW, with two ILS approaches and
> steady airline traffic) the preferred runway is 25, which has only a
> LOC(BC) and NDB approach -- the assumption is that pilots will take the
> visual approach on a good day.
I see I wasn't careful enough in what I wrote. The ILS is generally used
in preference to any other instrument approach (that makes sense for the
wind direction). If the weather is good enough to fly a visual, that's
generally preferable to an ILS because it saves time.
Of course, there's always exceptions. Here in New York, LaGuardia has a
number of ILS's, including an ILS-22. The most common approach, however,
is the LDA-A, CTL 22. They run it in preference to the ILS-22 for noise
abatement purposes when the weather allows.
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