November 22, 200322 yr OK,So I bought Lago's teramesh for Switzerland along with FlyLogic's Zurich Scenery and decided to fly there tonight from EGLL.I depart with no issues and Handfly the SID and route up to FL320, I let the AP finish it off at FL350 ;)I check the weather and it's saying real real low visibility with winds calm:LSZH 212220Z 33003KT 0200 R14/0450N R16/0650N R28/0450V0750N FG VV001 01/01 Q1015 NOSIGI plan the VOR DME approach into 28(which happens to require 5 KM visibilty at the minimum) and everything looks fine. In fact, the AP(LNAV/VNAV) performed exceptionally!I'm on finals with final checklists complete and Missed Appraoch planned(I couldnt plan the MA in the FMC(back to the old fasioned way)...SU2!).I'm 1 mile out and the GPWS is calling out altitudes which are getting smaller and smaller, with no airport in sight. I declare a MA and start my left turn on the WIL-255 radial and decide to fly the RWY 16 ILS.The aircraft handled exceptionally! So the final test is the Autoland. I've only ever used this once as I'm a firm believer in hand flying as much as possible.This time, I chose the landing view and as the GPWS is yet again calling out smaller and smaller numbers, I still see no RWY!100...Nope50...Nope20...Finally,Runway in Site dead Center! The aircraft landed right on the numbers! Absolutely incredible! Finally we're getting closer to performing real world operations which are implemented like reality! :)Keep it up guys, I just felt like reminding ya what a fantastic creature you've created...I'm sure it's getting tiresome and difficult to fix those final little itches and bugs ;)JohnP 2.53 GHZ512 RAMWINXPGFORCE 4 128MB Ti4600http://homepage.eircom.net/~eamonnmca/images/logo_ba.JPGwww.bavirtual.co.uk Senior Captain Simflight.com Staff Reviewer
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