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PA-28 instructor pilot reported his student descended steeply to 150 feet AGL during a practice non-precision instrument approach in IMC conditions.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1243554 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201503 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | FPR.Tower |
| State Reference | FL |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor Pilot Not Flying |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach |
Narrative:
Instrument training; non-precision approaches; localizer intro. Student pilot lost situational awareness when descending to MDA from step down fix on the ILS/localizer 10R fpr approach: instead of leveling off at 380 ft he descended steeply to almost 150 ft needing the instructor pilot to take the controls and recover safe flight path in order to prevent an imminent crash on short final. There was an unexpected broken cloud layer at about 300 ft that permitted to spot the runway intermittently (at times in sight; no visual cues other times). The student did very well shooting a previous approach though having the same type of unexpected weather; the difference was that we stayed above the clouds at all times watching the layer from atop whereas in the localizer we were flying through the clouds and close to the ground. First encounter with IMC by student pilot.to encourage pilots to follow school rules on wx minima to conduct a flight and to have a contingency plan in case unforeseen wx becomes an issue.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: PA-28 instructor pilot reported his student descended steeply to 150 feet AGL during a practice non-precision instrument approach in IMC conditions.
Narrative: Instrument Training; Non-precision approaches; LOC intro. Student pilot lost situational awareness when descending to MDA from step down fix on the ILS/LOC 10R FPR approach: Instead of leveling off at 380 ft he descended steeply to almost 150 ft needing the instructor pilot to take the controls and recover safe flight path in order to prevent an imminent crash on short final. There was an unexpected broken cloud layer at about 300 ft that permitted to spot the runway intermittently (at times in sight; no visual cues other times). The student did very well shooting a previous approach though having the same type of unexpected weather; the difference was that we stayed above the clouds at all times watching the layer from atop whereas in the LOC we were flying through the clouds and close to the ground. First encounter with IMC by student pilot.To encourage pilots to follow school rules on wx minima to conduct a flight and to have a contingency plan in case unforeseen wx becomes an issue.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.