Made a flight (in PMDG 739) from KSEA to KPDX arr. 28L. Intercepted ILS and captured G/S from below and had to take the landing in hand about three miles out the alignment was so off. The ND shows everything on the numbers but the a/c is lined up for center taxi way. Tried it again with the default 734...same same. Anyway to fix this?John Franklin

Just ran a check using AFCAD221 against my set of approach plates and airport diagrams, current as of August 2004.Runway mag heading is 280.4, ILS final approach is 279 per the pubs, AFCAD says runway is 280.3, ILS 279. So FS9 does have the settings as per published info (which are based on 12/02 data). Looks like maybe an offset approach to me. And the published minima of 400 and 1/2 for a straight in ILS (normally, 200 & 1/2 for this type of approach) would kind of indicate to me it is. FWIW, 10R ILS has a published final approach course of 101, NOT 099 like you would expect. If you want to change things, you could use AFCAD to do it. Paul

This is a known problem. There are a couple of AFCAD2 files in the library that should address this.

So why is it a problem if it matches a real world approache as published?? Paul

It's not the hdg that's off, the localizer is actually displaced a bit. "Show Navaids" in AFCAD and it's easy to see.

OK, thanks, I see it now. Missed it the first time.Gave the readme a quick look, not sure if just changing the location coordinates in AFCAD would solve it or not. Will need to do some more studying.Regards,Paul