Medium Large Transport; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Workload; Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Inflight Event / Encounter Fuel Issue; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; Flight Crew Diverted; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed
Airport; Human Factors; Weather; Aircraft
We to ORF and the weather was not very good in ORF. After a slight delay departing and holding over CCV VOR; ATC reported the weather at 6000 RVR. So we attempted to shoot the approach in to runway 5 in ORF. We were cleared for the approach maintain 2300 ft until established. We were solid IFR (IMC) and there was a 33 KTS crosswind and the autopilot had a hard time intercepting the LOC. After overshooting the LOC 4 or 5 times I turned off the autopilot and hand flew the ILS down to minimums at which we had to go into missed approach; due to not seeing the runway. After the missed we had 4300 LBS of fuel onboard and our divert fuel was 4110 LBS so we diverted to IAD. The winds were gusting in IAD also so the autopilot had a hard time intercepting the LOC again in IAD. So I turned off the autopilot once again and hand flew the ILS. We broke out at 800 feet on the ILS and landed with no problems. During both approaches we were fully configured and established on the ILS by 1000 feet AGL; with no excessive banking. The flight was then canceled.
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An air carrier flight crew reported executing a missed approach on the ORF ILS 5 approach due to gusty 30+ knot crosswinds. The crew flew a successful approach to IAD; which also presented gusty conditions. The autopilot had difficult tracking in the high crosswind.