ILS Landing Tutorial with Screenshots

[AeroBus]

Pleaseeeeeee! help!!  :-[ ::)
i still keep crashing after 2 days of trying
how do i know what's the runway direction?  

[Celtman]

The runway heading (direction) can be found by the runway "name". E.G, runway 12 is at a heading of 115 - 124 degrees (I think). Runway 13 is a heading of 125-134, and so on. Someone will correct me if i'm wrong, but this is how I have been flying for a few years and works fine

You could also just use the GPS for a visual indication of where the runway is.

Edit:
Use the FS map and click on the runway to get the exact heading.

[Brett_Henderson]

Flying an approach and landing in general is a complicated thing. Lots of stuff going on..

Practice it all in a smaller, slower plane and then work your way up  :)

[Xyn_Air]

Nav,

First, I would just like to jump on the bandwagon and congratulate you on a fine tutorial.  It is with complete honesty that I say your approach to the topic was not only helpful, but also very professional in appearance.  Well done.

Moving on a bit, I have always been the type of person that likes to have some paper in front of me to read from; I do not do so well looking at a computer monitor for extensive reading and learning.  Because of that, I copied your tutorial (for personal use) and put it into a pamplet form on Word.  I was wondering if you (Nav) and the powers that be (SimV mods and admins) would like to check it out and perhaps have it available for download.  Just a thought, and yea or nay on that idea is fine with me.  As a note, I should point out that I made some tiny changes to reflect the difference between reading the tutorial as a pamphlet versus looking at it online.  Nothing significant was changed, merely a few cosmetic details.

Anyway, thanks again.  Really helpful guide.

All the best,
~Darrin

[Nav]

Thanks for the kind words, Xyn_Air. It seems to be 'lasting' well and helping quite a few people, anyway.

As to-

I was wondering if you (Nav) and the powers that be (SimV mods and admins) would like to check it out and perhaps have it available for download.

- there's no copyright on it or anything but if it's left to me, on reflection I'd rather not. I did have it in mind to make it into a download myself, but left it too late; if you look under 'Help & Tutorials' on the Simviation Main Page you'll find that there are already two straight 'cribs' of it available for download on there - entitled 'ILSTUTORIAL' and "ILS Landing.' Here are quotes illustrating the (terribly low) standard of each:-

[i]ILSTUTORIAL

[Jersey Flyer]

Hey, a very nice tutorial, I got it on my first try, but now im getting confused again.

After I punch in the runways frequency on the "nav 1" in the radio stack, and switch from stand by, after when I punch in the runways course, I dont click on "nav" after that, do I ?

-JerseyFlyer

[Sir_Crashalot]

Nope you use the Approach button. If you would use Nav nothing happens. Besides some very strange things you don't want......

Crash

[Jersey Flyer]

;o okay

Ill be sure to take your word for that.  ;D

Mmkay tho, I was just making sure I dont hit that, I know all the steps, I just guess it takes some getting used to, lol.

[Flight]

THANK YOU ... BiG time!
Ive been flying MFS since 98,00,02,04,X
and still Ive learnt some new skills from ur thread!  ;)

[Nav]

Pleasure, Flight, glad it was useful.  :)

[Putt4eagle]

Great post. Thanks for the info. It would be awesome if you could make a video of it and post it on Youtube so you could see what you are doing as you do it from start to finish.

[Nav]

Cheers R/C Ben!

[milesg]

this is GREAT info...ill try it to night and see if all this works in fs 2004 for windows vista. but i think some info has gone on PERMANENT vacation. i cant get ils to work any place, except in the pre programs. as i said all check and thank you for this great information