I set-up the course, ILS frequeny and on the approach, I engaged the approach button. At this point, the plane turns as if to approach the runway, but falls drastically out of the sky.  I don't have any problem with other planes I fly, using this procedure...please, what am I doing wrong with the C-130? :'(

Joseph wrote on Jun 21^st, 2009 at 12:33pm:

I set-up the course, ILS frequeny and on the approach, I engaged the approach button. At this point, the plane turns as if to approach the runway, but falls drastically out of the sky.  I don't have any problem with other planes I fly, using this procedure...please, what am I doing wrong with the C-130? :'(

i think this may help you. search in the kb:417 and read it.
if not you say that its in the glide slope but not keeps on the glide slope?

Thanks Yannay for the info.

Well, I'm not a pro at this stuff...learning. I do fly serveral Captain Sim aircraft, the 727, 757, others and have no problem with the ILS approach. I set-up the Flight Plan for the C-130 the same as these aircraft...select IFR for the type of flight.  The C-130 radio is set to the ILS frequency of the airport.  I select the NAV ILS mode and prior to the approach, I select the approach or glide slope button. At this point the  C-130 goes astray. On the other aircraFT...smooth, straight on  to the runway.

I'll check out the KB-417 ::)

im not a pro so i got similiar problem.its turning to the right an pass the runway and then turn to the left and again and again.

i'll try some things and tell you..
well i found some things that might help slove this problem.
i searched for some pope afb airport charts and found this page:

http://naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0906/00147IL23.PDF

now i can see from wich altitude to come for  the aprroach and etc.
if it says 2000 the ils "beam" so i will come from 1800 and try to engage in instrument landing.

OK Yannay...let me know what you come up with. I have always set up the flight plan in FS9 using an IFR plan and following the ATC for directions. They always instruct to come in @1500 feet and I haven't had any problem landing the planes in my files, except for this C-130. My brother was having the same problem and he said he finally got it to work by setting up a GPS flight plan.  He said he flew the plane in the GPS mode and when he started making the final approach, he switch to the NAV/LIS mode and click the glide slope button...perfect landing for him. I tried this and couldn't get it to work either. I'll get back witih him and let him walk me through and see what happens. In the mean time keep me posted Yannay...thinks.  :-[

try this: go to the c-130 file (where ace and etc located) and press flight,there will be 3 flight cold and dark hot cockpit and pope afb landing enter to the pope afb landing and you will be on final with every thing set to ils landing just press the approach knob and it should be doing ils...

try this and tell what happend.. 8-)

OK  Yannay...I'll give it a try. Maybe this will give me a hint as to what I'm doing wrong... many thanks for your diligent help. Will keep you posted on how things work out. :)

Yannay, I did go the flight file listed in the Ace folder. I tried all three landing files. The first one listed really help me in understanding the problem that I'm having with the ILS approach. I made several approaches using this file and made straight on landings. This has really helped me in resolving the problem and again, I really appreciate your help. I hope I can be of some assistance to you down the line.  :)

congratulation! no problem for helping you up.
8-) 8-)

yannay wrote on Jun 25^th, 2009 at 9:57am:

congratulation! no problem for helping you up. 8-) 8-)

Shouldn't that be down....lol....j/k.....Happy Flying.

Hayden