ILS Landing Tutorial with Screenshots

[willg]

after reading my last post I seem to come over a little big headed and unappreciative of your guide, I thought id just say that this isnt the case and that I do appreciate your guide, guides/tutorials like that really are invaluable to begginers or generally anyone in the FS world.

[Ben_M_K]

Hey! Thats great nav! Wonderful work!
I'm sure new-comers will appreciate this!!

[Nav]

Cheers R/C Ben!

[Saitek]

That's what I need so desperately severla months ago! Well it will sure benefit others and I learnt one thing which I thought I was nuts on and that is I come in too low.

Just one thing though -  I am surprised you didn't have auto-break on.

Great job and I'm sure that will be useful for many.

[jb2_86_uk]

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Just one thing though -

[willg]

ya Nav i know all that, its common sense, ive taken off at 200 knots before just to see if would go up any better but it still just keeps movin along the ground with the nose up

i normally rotate at 160 knots, with a small amount of trim and flaps at one notch.

[Saitek]

Is that where the air-stewardesses automatically come to the cockpit with refreshments? Or do you mean auto-brake? he he

John

Of course! He needs something to give him the energy to pull the brake levers!
Unless it is of course an autopilot for crashing.... mind you I don't think most of us need an auto-feature to do that.

[willg]

by the way ive sorted my taking off problem now, i made the rather nooby error of accidentally hitting / without realising

[Nav]

Hi Saitek!

Didn't cover auto-brake because I have to admit that I've only used it a couple of times, and find that it's a unnecessary hassle.

I'm happy enough just using '/' for spoilers, 'F2' for reverse thrust, and the joystick trigger for brakes - even on short runways.  Less 'sorting out' to do later when you're down to taxiing speed.

Besides - I had to stop somewhere!  :)

[Nav]

willg, flap (or the lack of it) is your problem then.

Not 'one notch' for takeoff - 5 degrees. Three notches on the 737, two notches on the 747 and Triple Seven.

Please do yourself a favour - go to the Learning Centre Index, click on 'B' for Boeing, and look up the Flight Notes for any aeroplane you are planning to fly. All the settings and speeds are in there, for 'Takeoff', 'Climb', 'Cruise' etc. Save you a lot of time - at the moment you seem always to be 'learning the hard way'.

[commoner]

........at the moment you seem always to be 'learning the hard way'.

......lol.....good point, but one of the BIG problems Nav, IMHO, is that most simmers, old and new, think that going into the Learning Centre IS doing it the hard way.......hard to know how to change that attitude....commoner

[Nav]

I've revised this to explain the initial phase of lining up with the localiser, which still seems to attract a lot of 'Help!' threads.  :)

Also redone the screenshots to make them clearer - the first lot had got thoroughly 'chewed up' - and added a few more tips.

Any feedback on things that still aren't clear, or other FS subjects that people would like me to try to cover, would be welcome.

[willg]

its okay I fully understand approaches now, thanks Nav and everyone else who's helped me  :)

I've made a little diagram about ILS approaches too.

[Nav]

That diagram is GREAT, willg. Guess that, now you've started drawing things out and writing them down, you're a fellow addict now.

[Theis]

Wow this stuff is Great!  8)
nice job Nav
Cheers Theis