| My student and I went up for some real-world IFR training to get him ready for his checkride. We got a weather briefing before takeoff, and we were pretty happy with the forecast for 2000 feet and 3 mile visibility. After talking to Bradley departure for a few minutes, he advised us that there was a new ATIS out for Barnes. Strange, I thought...the new ATIS came out right before we left. Sure enough, in the five minutes we had been airborne the ceiling had dropped to 600' agl and the visibility was 1 3/4 miles. Not really a problem, as our minimums for the ILS were 250' agl and 3/4 miles vis. We got vectored in and were coming up on the final approach fix when I noticed the glideslope was still flagged. Not good. My student noticed it and told me that he would just fly to the localizer minimums. I told him that was just fine, but i knew that our loc mins were at the exact altitude as the reported bases. Great. But to his credit, he stayed cool and focused, and right as we hit out MDA we picked up the runway and made a silky smooth landing. Just another day at the office! The aircraft was a 2000 Cessna Skyhawk SP |
