WHILE MAKING AN IFR PRACTICE ILS APCH TO RWY 8 AT F45; A FLT INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENT HAVE A TFC CONFLICT WITH VFR TFC DEPARTING OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
Synopsis
WHILE MAKING AN IFR PRACTICE ILS APCH TO RWY 8 AT F45; A FLT INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENT HAVE A TFC CONFLICT WITH VFR TFC DEPARTING OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
Narrative
PROB WAS INITIATED DUE TO THE PRACTICE OF MOST PEOPLE AT LCL UNCTLED ARPTS ACCOMMODATING IFR TFC. THE UNDERSTANDING THAT MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN THE SIT WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN ON BOTH SIDES OF SCENARIO. ARPT HAS NO WX RPTING AND ATC HAS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT HAPPENS AFTER RADAR SVC IS TERMINATED AND CHANGE TO ADVISORY OCCURS. HOWEVER; THEY DO CLR YOU FOR OPPOSITE DIRECTION APCH. IN FUTURE; PROB MAY BE AVOIDED BY SETTING MINIMUM ALT OR DISTANCE FROM ARPT TO ABANDON APCH. ALSO; ATC HAVING SOME KNOWLEDGE OF LCL CONDITIONS AND TFC WOULD HELP. DEPARTED VERO BEACH MUNICIPAL (URB) ON IFR FLT PLAN TO F45; THEN TO SUA (STUART) THEN BACK TO URB. PURPOSE OF FLT WAS IFR TRAINING. AFTER SWITCHING TO PALM BEACH APCH; WE WERE CLRED FOR ILS RWY 8R AT F45. WE WERE 2ND OF 3 APCHING IFR ON ILS. AFTER CTL AUTH THE SWITCH; WE CHANGED TO ADVISORY FREQ AND BEGAN MAKING POS RPTS FOR LCL TFC. LCL TFC WAS USING OPPOSITE DIRECTION RWY. 2 ACFT WERE RPTING. I VERIFIED THEY WERE MAKING L TFC AND THAT ONE WAS DOWNWIND AND FULL STOP. THE SECOND ACFT CALLED AND ASKED MY INTENTIONS. AFTER TRYING TO WORK OUT A LOW APCH WITH THE 2ND ACFT; I WAS TOLD BY 2ND ACFT TO DO CIRCLE TO LAND. 2ND ACFT TOOK OFF AND BEGAN CLBING WITH KNOWLEDGE OF MY PRESENCE ON ILS. WITH ACFT IN SIGHT AND UNABLE TO WORK OUT VERBAL AGREEMENT FOR LOW APCH; I WENT MISSED AND BEGAN TO CLB. ACFT CALLED AND ASKED IF I HAD THEM IN SIGHT. I STATED I DID AND CLBED ON RWY HDG WITH ACFT PASSING OPPOSITE DIRECTION BENEATH ME.
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