It there way to tell what runway you be landing at when you setup a flight plan. It will help when you set the ILS Freq before flight.

I think it’s only possible if you plan your flight with a set weather theme (constant winds).

 

If you use real weather then no, as weather conditions will change accordingly. You might get lucky if you know the prevailing winds on the destination airport and weather doesn’t change much.

 

What I do is tune COM2 to the ASOS/AWOS or ATIS frequency (if available at destination or close by airport). Then I can get destination weather data from as far as 85 NM out and “guess” the active.

If destination has parallel RWYs and both have ILS, you can always request another RWY!

I allways use the same ILS frequ and hoping it right when I get near the airport

Get the charts so you can find the ILS frequency.

 

Most real world pilots don't know what approach they'll get until they hear the ATIS (usually 50-200 miles out)... and even then sometimes the controller will have a different approach in use...

 

http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/index.php%3Foption=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=6&Itemid=13.html

http://www.fltplan.com/AirportInformation/KJFK.htm

Yes and no. It depends on quite a few things. Firstly, there are airports in the world with only one landing runway due to some obstruction preventing approaches to the other end - so clearly in this case you'd know which runway you're landing at. There are also quite a lot of airports which will be using the same runways 90%+ of the time for factors such as prevailing winds or preferential runways to avoid large residential areas etc. It also depends on the length of the flight you're doing, if it's a flight less than 3 hours, noting the conditions on the METAR/TAF will give you a very good chance of knowing what runway(s) you'll be looking at for landing. For longer flights, especially long-hauls, it's pretty trivial looking at the weather at the destination.

 

Having said that though, I do check the destination weather while doing the planning and it usually ends up I land on the runway I had in mind during planning, and I do a mixed lot of flying really. It isn't really a big deal though, if you get your hands on charts for your destination, you won't have to worry about not knowing the ILS frequency. In real life, as mentioned, pilots don't sort out the approach until just before TOD - and even then you might not know which runway you'll be landing on if there's multiple landing runways, but it's the STAR you're initially concerned about.

Get the charts so you can find the ILS frequency.

 

Most real world pilots don't know what approach they'll get until they hear the ATIS (usually 50-200 miles out)... and even then sometimes the controller will have a different approach in use...

 

http://www.nats-uk.e...&Itemid=13.html

 

But how will the pilot know what course number to put in on the autopilot?

It's on the charts too....

 

I think you might want to start to read a little on basic navigation.

 

http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/

It's on the charts too....

 

I think you might want to start to read a little on basic navigation.

 

http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/

 

I know it on the chart, But if you fly to a airport that you never been before you might not know what course number and maby the ILS frequ to enter into your plane.

Which is why you use the charts to see....

 

Pilots in the real world don't know all these frequencies and inbound courses by memory you know

If you really don't want to use charts and all you want is the course and frequency then jut use the fsx map. Don't just guess the frequency.