Confession and Help!

[Smoke2much]

I have a confession to make, and it pains me greatly.

I cannot make head nor tail of approach plates, they simply don't make any sense to me.  I can find a VOR, fly down an ILS glideslope and navigate using my atlas and a ruler but how in (Insert deity of choice)'s name can you understand these darn things.

If someone can explain them to me in words of one syllabul I will be eternally in their debt.

The reason for this is a friend recently gave me a load of out of date plates for the UK, and I just cant seem to understand them.  I managed to pass the CPL in fs2002 by trial and error, but the others are just beyond me

Thanks in advance.

Will < Looking embarrased

[Ivan]

lots of links

[Smoke2much]

You are a star Ivan.  

Thankyou

Will

[Jared]

[quote]I have a confession to make, and it pains me greatly.

I cannot make head nor tail of approach plates, they simply don't make any sense to me.

[Rifleman]

Wow,... when I saw "Confession" ,  I jumped right in here expecting some juicy stuff..........  :o

Disappointed once again............. ::)

Teaser ! ..........  ;D

[Polynomial]

s'ok Will, I don't have the foggiest on how do do anything fancy on FS.  I just usually bum around in my favourite aircraft disobeying ATC and everything.  I simply havent got the time (or brain capacity) to handle anything like that.

PolyN

[Tequila Sunrise]

I to have a confession
I don't know how to navigate with the radios at all, ILS however is not a problem sinse I almost never fly buses

[OTTOL]

I'm one of those twisted individuals that take pleasure in the intricacies of approach plates and enroute charts. It comes from flight instructing. That's not a boast, so much as an explanation. I HAD to learn how to teach a topic to students that is generally considered a real "snoozer"!!!  Are you using Jeppeson plates Will?   If you have any specific questions post them.          .....and VOR navigation is also very easy with a little practice Craig. I had to cover the VOR's for my students on cross-country flights, because they  
would become TOO reliant upon them, and then not focus on  
learning "land nav." skills.        Pat

[Jared]

lol...pretty good at VOR to VOR, but never tried approach charts as of yet, but I do have a set of North eastern Ohio charts coming from my uncle who is done with them.  sure they're a couple of months old, but he has hradly used most of them...Yay! Free goodies for the sim!

Jared

[Deputy]

[quote]Wow,... when I saw "Confession" ,