Mike, etal
Your metars/overcast got me thinking of an
“approach” view of the situation. So I plotted the lat/lon’s
on the DNN ILS approach plate. Interestingly according to the plate
and sectional, there aren’t any “mountains” to speak of
between any of the radar points and the airport. He went right through
the localizer at the glide slope intercept (high at that point) and they
appears to have swung out way too wide. It will be interesting to see
more data, ATC communication, etc.
Rick
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of MikeEasley@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006
11:20 AM
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Subject: [LML] Re: Lancair down in
Georgia
I'm not sure how accurate the flight
aware numbers are but I did some checking. I'm sure the altitude numbers
are pressure altitude from the transponder, airspeeds are ground speeds.
I pulled up Google Earth and entered some of the lat lon numbers from your post
to get a feel for where he was. I converted the decimal lat lon to
degrees and minutes.
The 12:24 fix at 16,400 MSL (15,700 AGL)
The 12:26 fix at 11,700 MSL (11,000 AGL)
The 12:28 fix at 7,700 MSL (7,000
AGL)
The last fix, presumably the crash
site
The last fix is close to a divided
highway with a grass median.
The 15,700 AGL entry is only 5 1/2 miles
from the airport. The 7,000 AGL entry is 8 miles from the airport.
See attached Google Earth image.