Ibra wrote:
How you would adjust the approach minima if you have no AI on partial panel, I doubt one will be comfortable going down to 200ft?
I would personally not adjust the minima. As long as the approach is stable it doesn’t matter if I don’t have an AI. Of course there is a larger risk of an unstabilised approach but then you should abandon the approach regardless of minima. Since this would be an emergency, I would look for the airport with the highest cloudbase/visibility.
If the approach is stable, it make sense to go down anyway visual or not at minima (going around on partial panel will not help neither) otherwise I guess the alternatives are: divert to another airport with high cloudbase, become VMC and land off field (@Snoopy pulling that chute?)
Probably, the same question for twins flyers, how approaches are executed on one engine? Will you adjust minima (seems more risk with OEI + going around)
@Noe, landing at Southend with one engine, was it a one shot approach? (there was not much night airports open around)
Yes, a chute is nice to have when rarely flying in imc in a single and experiencing attitude indicator failure.
As long as everything is under control I’d opt for a no gyro PAR approach to the runway. In a cirrus the chute is an option if you screw up before you’re too low.
Ibra wrote:
@Noe, landing at Southend with one engine, was it a one shot approach? (there was not much night airports open around)
Stansted was my nearest backup. It was a beautiful clear day (but with no moon so over the sea it was more like IMC), so I wasn’t concerned about the weather. I landed with over 4h of fuel, so in case of IMC could have “chased” an airfield with better conditions had it come to it.
In my case, I did prepare for a go around, and given the long runway didn’t land with full flaps, to make go-around easier if it needed to be (I landed on the first attempt, and it was my best landing ever, I had a moment of hesitation if I had actually landed (until the nosewheel started “bumping” on the runway lights).
In hard IMC, with time pressure, I would have tried to land on a and tried to land on a CATII/III runway, where I think the lightse are even more powerful (and would have had more confidence following the ILS right down to the ground if needed to be), and large commercial airports are more likely to ahve emergency services on hand.
Noe wrote:
I landed on the first attempt, and it was my best landing ever
Things only work under pressure 
Snoopy wrote:
In a cirrus the chute is an option if you screw up before you’re too low.
Yes, the chute will not help on a botched approach, so one has to decide early (you get the additional risk of delay)
