Approaching Airports and landing

[young7938]

I was wondering can anyone explain or direct me to guides on the following issues:

1. Once you are given a runway to land on from the tower, how do you know which one is the right one to land on especially when there are runways parallel to each other?

2. How do you approach/land a plane correctly using the on-board instruments/or GPS rather than visually doing so.  I want to learn how to land a plane the correct way rather than turning to an outerview of the plane and landing that way (unrealistic). I have problems with the decent to the runway and the rate of fall, etc. I want to be able to land the plane in the fogg. Anyone can direct me to a guide, or else can anyone explain it to me?

Thanks

[Captain James Wrig]

To idenify the runways go the map & zoom in the airport you want to land at. The map should identify the runways for you.

Also while you are there double click on the airport to show the list of ILS details for those runways. You will need this information when attempting an Instrument Landing System (ILS) approach. Note: not all airports have ILS so you may find the smaller ones don't have this info available.

This sort of info:eg

Auckland Intl (NZAA)

Runway

[BAW0343]

ILS is a little complicated and I'm sure anyone on this forum will agree with me, you need to learn to do it manually before you do ILS.  However there is an ILS tutorial on the site somewhere but I have forgotten where it is hopefully some one else can post a link for me.  As for runway numbers and which one to land on is easy, The numbers on the runway indicate its heading
36 is 360 degrees
09 is 090 degrees
18 is 181 degrees
27 is 270 degrees
so on and so fourth, Add a 0 to the end of any runway heading and you will know which direction to go to land. Adding a L, C, or R is Left Center Right, 09R would be at a heading of 090 and is the runway to the right. When airports have 3 runways most will do a L, R, then another number ie. 24L 24R 25 are runways at KPHX  I hope this made sense as I'm kinda tired and cant think straight  ;D

[young7938]

Thanks guys, all the help so far is clearing up everything. Makes things a lot easier when trying to understand how to correctly fly.

[DONTREADMYUSERNAME]

click this link for a great ILS tutorial....
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1111322151

[stuart1044]

If you get 6R for example then it is the runway on the right from that end, please bear in min di  have had more than a fwe tonight [smiley=beer.gif] [smiley=beer.gif] [smiley=beer.gif]