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Message started by boeing247 on Nov 27th, 2011 at 10:31pm

Title: Re: Finally Ditching ATC
Post by Markoz on Dec 9th, 2011 at 1:33am

gallen144 wrote on Dec 8th, 2011 at 2:48pm:
Look up destination airport on the FSX map.  Note the airport winds, field elevation, and ILS equipped runways.  Select a runway taking best advantage of winds and note the localized frequency and approach course.  Also visualize an intercept course from current location to the beginning of the ILS course shown on the map.  Exit Map and return to flight, then setup localizer frequency and course.  Turn to intercept the localizer and navigate to around 2500 feet above field elevation (terrain permitting, otherwise adjust as needed)  Adjust intercept course enroute as needed (if GPS available, use as self-contained radar vectors to intercept point) and slow to approach speed.  Intercept localizer and turn on approach course.  Watch for glide path cues to become active and aircraft below the glide path.  Continue approach with normal ILS procedures (including intercepting the glide path from beloe) to landing or missed approach.

This is the method I use for any aircraft that doesn't have an FMS. It works great too.

I don't have access to charts, so I use FSC9 to give me some idea on what I need to do. I also add the default FS GPS to most of the aircraft that don't have it, so I can get a lot of info from that. I still have to use the either the FSX Map or FSC9 to give me the runway heading for ILS approaches. I nearly always have FSC and FSX running together. I use ASE for weather, so I look at my destination to see what the weather is there. I'm still learning to not ask for landing instructions from 30 miles out, because the ATIS and control tower seem to have different weather to ASE until I'm about 15 miles out.

Mark

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