Hi. Roger

More information is needed:

Airport / runway? Frequency for ILS? AIRAC cycle?

Regards

Schmid

I don't know if this is part of your problem or not, but when setting up for this kind of thing, first press LOC and get on a 30 degree intercept heading with Heading SEL. �Then after the LOC is captured and you are heading correctly towards the runway, but before starting to descend on the glide slope, ie before the vertical indicator has crossed the 0 point, press APP to capture the glideslope.

This has never failed to work for me.

It sounds to me like you haven't captured the localizer properly.

Roger

ILS frequency is correct so I believe the problem remains on your procedure.

Bill is fully correct. You have first to capture localizer so you have to previously activate LOC.

Keep looking to your PFD. The LOC message will change when you capture localizer.

At this moment (a little bit different from Bill) I activate APP button, of course assuring vertical indicator is above '0 point'.

Try this and let us know how it goes.

Regards

Schmid

Yeah, actually I hit APP as soon as the localizer is captured. 

For our VA, SOP is 180 kts or more to intercept the localizer and Flaps 5-10 depending on weight.  Target approach speed is Vref30 +5+ 1/2 the head wind component+ the full gust in excess of the steady wind if you have gusts. 

Gear down at 10 nm from the runway or when the glideslope comes alive, whichever is later.  Drop speed to target final approach speed when gear goes down to prevent spool up of the engines due to drag.  I dial down the speed as I drop my gear so that as the gear locks into place, the speed has dropped to just about where Flaps 20 is needed, which go down just after gear is locked in place, then speed continues dropping to flaps 25, then full flaps so that the final configuration is achieved by the final fix. 

Capturing the glideslope from above is a mandatory go-around condition in our VA as it is with most real world airlines. You are not allowed to divebomb the glideslope, so make sure that your downwind leg is long enough or your altitude is low enough so that you intercept the ILS BELOW the glideslope.  Many aircraft won't even capture the glideslope if you are above it prior to capture.  The CS757 might be one of them, can't remember if I have tried this yet or not with this aircraft.

That is about all there is to it really.

Schmid wrote on Jul 20^th, 2009 at 10:00pm:


Surely AIRAC should have nothing to do with it? It's simply radio navigation.

I still can't see how this would make a difference.

Regardless of the AIRAC, you should tune to the ILS manually and capture the localiser in FSX, as manually as you should be doing anyway you'll be entering the frequency of the aiport, rather than the false frequency in the AIRAC.

I meant capturing the localiser is simple navigation, which it is. I never go auto when it's time to capture the localiser, I'll do it when I'm ready.

Schmid wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2009 at 7:08pm:


Maybe this should be on a new thread. But I had this same issue with Dublin(EIDW). So I would now love to know how to "to edit and compile airports with new information. "

Also you can try "FSX Planner".