Deano, you’ve picked this thread up well, i sense an ATPL in the process?

Perhaps you could reflect your knowlege on the guys a bit more, why don’t we all (who feel confident) put together and make a document for

1. ILS approaches
2. VOR/DME approaches
3. ILS/DME approaches
4. NDB/DME approches
5. Maybe even an SRA (Surveillence Radar Approach) (controller needed)

May take a while but would be great dont you think?

Ben

**Just seen your signature Deano** Ignore my first sentence.

Yep should be good, I’ll see what Chris comes up with and then add more techie detail if it’s needed, I’m on the last batch of ATPL exams for 3 weeks now so won’t be that active to do it until these are over.

[INDENT]up to £4,745 tax free
between £4,745 – £6,765 10%
between £6,765 – £36,145 22%
over £36,145 40%[/INDENT]

naaa something is wrong with that last figure, my basic pay falls in the 40% bracket and is reflected on my self assessment form I have to fill in every year, the figures I quoted above come direct from the government website.

I guess your figures Don are for working travellers as you say but bperucco said he wants to relocate and not exactly travel to this country on a working visa?
Maybe there is some difference

Lee

Please check your private messages in the top right of the page

Dean

HAHA, send it back

The 40% bracket is anything above 33k I thought, I pay 40% tax and have to fill out a friggin tax return so I have a pretty good idea how it works ( I think HAHA )
Basically the 40% bracket means you pay 40% on anything ABOVE 33k, it does not make your whole earnings pay 40%, also it is calculated based on your frequency of pay so if you get paid monthly it gets calculated on that, if you get paid weekly then it is calculated on that and so on, if you earn 3,000 per month then you will pay 40% on 250 pounds of that and anything you earn above 3000 because after you earn 2750 pounds per month this means your earnings would be over 33k pro rata, does that make sense?

The Tax bands are

Starting rate 10% 0 – 2,150

Basic rate 22% 2,151 – 33,300

Higher rate 40% over 33,300

So even if you earn 60,000 per year these tax brackets apply, the 1st 2,150 pounds you earn will be taxed at 10% and so on

Dean

try http://www.centrelineair.co.uk/

You’ll have to go through the website yourself for the info you require, they are based at Bristol Intl and are very good

Dean

The ILS or I nstrument L anding S ystem is a precision approach system that will guide the aircraft down a path vertically & laterally to the threshold for landing, the way it works is fairly complex and I’ll attempt to type it out if you really want to know but basically it uses 2 radio beams in the VHF band for the Localiser (centreline) and 2 radio beams in the UHF band for the Glideslope (descent profile), the instrument in the cockpit can pick up where the aircraft is in relation to the frequency overlap of each of the LLZ & GS beams and display it on the PFD & HSI, the ILS can be flown manually or automatically dependant on how confident you feel but will generally be flown manually once visual contact with the runway has been made and can be maintained.
There are also approaches called Non-Precision Approaches which uses NDBs & VORs coupled with a descent profile on a chart based on DME, this HAS to be flown manually.

Dean

Not sure Chris to be honest, like i said, the degrees were from memory because I did not write down what he said, when I see him next I’ll ask him 🙂
I guess what he may have been saying is that when they DO use them that is around the speed that it is deployed