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I was doing another test flight today in the 172SP into KBGR. I was still about 90 miles out level at 6000 feet on autopilot with no problems. At about 85 miles or so the ILS was picked up, and the instructor starts telling me to intersect the glide slope and took off 33% for being on autopilot. I guess the word to the wise is don't tune the ILS too early.
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gwplotts (12/10/2008)
I was doing another test flight today in the 172SP into KBGR. I was still about 90 miles out level at 6000 feet on autopilot with no problems. At about 85 miles or so the ILS was picked up, and the instructor starts telling me to intersect the glide slope and took off 33% for being on autopilot. I guess the word to the wise is don't tune the ILS too early.For all I know the ILS signal is picked up at a much closer distance than 85 miles, but many airports have ILS frequencies that are the same, so you might have picked up a signal from another airport. Same result though, so you are right, beware of those ILS settings.
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Ole Andreasen, Denmark
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| I just want to mention that the 33% deduction for autopilot cannot occur in cruise mode if cruising high enough. The aircraft must have had AP on when not in cruise mode (or when below 5000 AGL in a heavy). The most common reason that folks get unexpectedly hit with the 33% deduction  is that they have auto-detection of landing mode on and they start a steady descent. This means landing mode will be triggered, and if they were already cruising with AP, they will then get hit for being in landing mode with AP. 
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