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ILS Landing

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  • 15-10-2010 1:27am
    #1
    CaptainSkidmark
    Registered Users Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭


    Ok, So... ive a new found love for FS x, before i used always just fly VFR and act the maggot but i wanna know how exactly to do a ILS Landing using the autopilot,
    ive tried all over the web but for some reason there are lots of different ways of doing it!

    from what i remember, When the ATC tells you which runway to land on, you get the ILS frequency and put it into nav1 and press from GPS to NAV 1, i cant remember where you put the exact runway hedding into?

    at what point does it actually start alligning with the runway?

    Some simple steps for a dummy would be really appreciated! :D


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    highlydebased
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Well you dont need to put the runway heading in- but you get the course for the ILS and put it in the course box.

    You will need to get vectored or self positioned into the ILS

    youtube would probably explain best :)


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    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Check the airport for the course of the runway you are landing put it into the crs

    Put the runway ILS frwq in Nav1

    When your a/c engages the ils, switch on APR mode... usually about 20-25 miles out

    Follow ATC instructions and when the heading switch blanks out the a/c has engaged with the glideslope then when the ALT switch goes out you are established and take it from there.

    Hope that helps.


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    CaptainSkidmark
    Registered Users Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭CaptainSkidmark


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Check the airport for the course of the

    When your a/c engages the ils, switch on APR mode... usually about 20-25 miles out

    You mean when the morse code comes through the radio switch to apr mode?

    J


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    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    On the Horizontal situation indicator when you see the 'runway bar' flick up and the glide slope arrows come on, usually about 25-20 miles out.

    Switch on the APR mode and follow the ATC instructions.


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    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


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    CaptainSkidmark
    Registered Users Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭CaptainSkidmark


    finally mastered it, though on landing in Insbruck last night the ATC directed me straight into the mountains! lol


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    pclancy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,939 ✭✭✭pclancy


    In game ATC comes out with some crazy stuff sometimes!

    Get yourself onto VATSIM :)


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    #9
    CaptainSkidmark
    Registered Users Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭CaptainSkidmark


    pclancy wrote: »
    In game ATC comes out with some crazy stuff sometimes!

    Get yourself onto VATSIM :)
    deffo! some times when i fly out of cork it just sends me off in a direction oposite my flight path and if i try follow the flight path it just send my back in the wrong direction! THEN after 20 mins or so it says Radar and ATC terminated lol.


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