Objective: To introduce the pilot to the procedures to track the localizer. The pilot will also gain more proficiency in VOR, DME, and GPS procedures.

Text References:

Instrument Pilot Flight Maneuvers and Practical Test Prep (FM)

Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH)

Content

1. Flight Lesson 11 complete? Yes ___ Copy of lesson placed in pilot’s folder? Yes ___

2. Preflight briefing

3. Review items

Intercepting and tracking VOR radials

Intercepting and tracking DME arcs

Tracking a GPS course

VOR time and distance calculations

4. New items

Tracking the localizer front course -FM 8, 16

Additional items at CFI’s discretion

5. Postflight critique and preview of next lesson

Completion Standards

The lesson will have been successfully completed when the pilot can demonstrate an understanding of front course localizer tracking. The pilot will be able to maintain the desired altitude, ±100 ft.; airspeed, ±10 kt.; heading, ±10°; DME arc, ±2 NM; and to track a VOR radial or a GPS course with no more than a 3/4-scale deflection of the CDI or within 10° in the case of an RMI.