From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017050113564150535-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > The old approach had me right under one of the turning points.  Not   
   > anymore.  The reason, without going into specifics, is that the old   
   > approach let planes get too near facilities that might be the target of   
   > unwanted attention.  We're practically a " no fly zone " now.   
      
   Turning points can be absolutely anywhere ATC and/or the tower specifies to   
   the pilots at the time.   
      
   > Suits me fine.  Commuter jets still fly over in the late evening, but   
   > straight lines, higher up, and a few miles to the east.   
      
   But on runways with ILS approaches, there are specific and precise   
   orientations to the runway. There is a localizer, which is in effect a   
   relatively small and low powered, very high resolution radio transmitter   
   which registers on a VOR-like OMNI bearing indicator which displays the   
   exact approach course to the actual heading of the runway itself so that   
   aircraft are always able to precisely line up with with it horizontally.   
   Meanwhile, a similar verticle arrangement, the glide slope, keeps aircraft   
   descending at a fixed angle, which means that anything underneath on the   
   ground will always  see the aircraft flying through the very same place in   
   the sky as they're on final to land.   
      
   > I have some pics of it, will see if I can track them down.  Computers   
   > change, hard drives get swapped, you know how it goes :-)   
      
   Millions of pictures of aircraft, yet we have to take even more...but it's   
   all part of being into aviation ;)   
      
   > Surveillance.   
      
   Isn't it always!   
   And a Surveillance State results in a Police State, which results in a   
   Prison State!   
   No wonder I wrote "Taking It Back"!   
      
   > It came over here VERY low. I was outside and noticed it because of the   
   > odd, very loud sound.  When some plane goes over souding all weird, I half   
   > expect to see it whack in the ground .. and then a fireball.   
      
   The only time I expect to see trouble is if the plane sounds like it's in   
   trouble, like running the engines at full throttle in an attempt to prevent   
   or recover from a stall close to the ground.   
      
   > That one was just doing what I've been talking about, on approach, and   
   > making the turn to line up with the airport north of town. Why they turn   
   > here, who knows. The airport is a good 9 or 10 miles. Maybe they don't   
   > want planes turning and stuff over the town.   
      
   The  ILS may be intercepted at any point where it can be received. Approach   
   plates often specify procedure turns, and Sometimes ATC instructs pilots to   
   turn to intercept the ILS at specific points, and still other times to make   
   a "straight in" final approach i.e. no procedure turns, just follow the ILS   
   right down to the runway to land once you're receiving its signal.   
      
   > I drink when I need to sleep, but am mentally still going. It sometimes   
   > mellows me out.  Sometimes tho, it doesn't.  And I nearly always have a   
   > headache later.  There is a fine line between enough to have some effect,   
   > but not enough to give me a headache. That line is about a shot and a   
   > half.   
      
   I'm mostly on the off-the-caffeine 'wagon' and there are plenty of headaches   
   from that too.   
      
   > I'm actually moving toward getting one.  Have some pa subs I'm gonna sell.   
   > Not so much that I need the money, as that wife is tired of them sucking   
   > space in the basement. She's playing a game with me. Thinks that agreeing   
   > with the Steinberg can be leverage to get me to clean those pa cabs out of   
   > here.  I'm ok with that.  It's good to let people believe they are   
   > manipulating you sometimes :-)   
      
   > I get what I want. She gets what she wants.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Compromising with gear - strange way to do it ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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