IFR Approaches

It's Friday, December 2, 2011, a beautiful day with a little wind and it's my birthday!  An email out to the Crewdawg Flyers the night before spurred an interest from a friend and fellow pilot Don Berliner to go up and fly some approaches.  So, we meet at South Jersey Airport at 10:00 AM and by 10:30 I had N916GZ preped ad ready to go.  We took off on 26 and climbed up to 2500 as I contacted MaGuire Approach for the clearance.  The plans were to do the ILS 6 at Robert Miller, KMJX, then to the missed approach point, then over to Robbinsville, N87, for the VOR 29 approach, missed and then back to the Robbinsville VOR and finish with the new RNAV GPS 26 back at South Jersey Airport, KVAY.  McGuire approved me and gave me the sqwak and began giving me the vectors for the ILS.  After a couple of turns we were cleared to intercept the localizer and begin the approach.  I felt really good as we decended to the 282 DH.  Once there I began the missed approach climbing to 600 and then continuing a climbing right turn to 1900 and back to coyle.  After a little confusion on switching the radio to bring up MaGuire we were cleared to Robbinsville.  A little wake turbulance from a C130 and a turn to the right to avoid the active restricted R5001, we were on our way to Robbinsville for the proceedure turn.  Auto Pilot made the trip and the turn a nice smooth occurance and then we were inbound 29 and heading down to the 800 missed approach.  Again a nice climbing right turn to Robbinsville VOR and a few moments to imput the RNAV GPS for 26 into KVAY.  An interesting approach, the only concern we had was that the final brought us right off the 01 runway for Flying W, N14.  Down to 460' on the RNAV was nice and then a smooth transition to a pretty nice landing.  1.3 hours for the log book along with 3 approaches, one hold, an interception of the radial and I even found the time to check the VOR's.  All in all and great day of flying.  Until next time, fly safe!