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Old December 3rd, 2006, 17:38   #24
meritflyer
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Default Re: Circling or straight-in minimums?

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Originally Posted by jrh View Post
To answer your question, no, if I was cleared for the ILS, I'd stay on glideslope, and if I lost the glideslope, I'd go missed. Sorry for the confusion.
This brings up an interesting point though..

I was helping a student study for the instrument knowledge test and there is a question phrased exactly like this -

Immediately after passing the final approach fix inbound during an ILS approach in IFR conditions, the glide slope warning flag appears. The pilot is ..

B) permitted to continue the approach and descend to the localizer MDA.

The reference it gives is AIM 1-1-9.

I can NOT find this in AIM 1-1-9.

Thoughts?
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