always get "no autoland" message

[Kattz 132]

Hi Guys,

 

This morning I succeed in a full ILS landing due to the recommandations in this topic, THANKS!

 

I have added a printscreen. Will wait for the SP1

 

Happy flying!

 

Best Regards,

Harry

 

Super job, Harry!  Fist bump plus 1.  And Kyle/Mike/Stephane, I appreciate all of the help.  I'm watching energy management a lot closer; not as important when flying the NGX.  I remember energy management from my first flight in the Tomahawk!

[flightwatch 68]

 

 

 

Interestingly enough, the approach on the STAR flew me right over MacDill AFB, which is a strict no-no.  I used to be stationed there.  The USAF doesn't like aircraft overflying the base, and this is a published approach. 

 

 

 Although flying over MacDill AFB, that scenery is so wrong it's unbelievable...  Picky arse am I.   :blink:

 

The scenery isn't wrong.  Tampa's Class B floor in that area is 1200 feet...which is also MCF's class D ceiling.  The FAF to 01L has an altitude restriction of 2100 or above...so you're not in MCF airspace to begin with.  Rarely is 01R used for anything bigger than a B1900 or business jet,  so no worries there because they get turned in between the base and the airport.  The procedure turn for 01L is usually N of MCF (Gandy bridge area, ) but the extended center line for 01L is West of MacDill anyways, so there's not much worry for aircraft to overfly the base...that is unless they overshoot the procedure turn.  The heavies usually fly a little further South before turning around (SPG area,) and aircraft coming from MIA, FLL, or the Carribean are routed around the South side of the base, so no concern there either.

 

Besides, MacDill doesn't have to worry about the commercial airliners that are under constant radar surveillance and radio communication.  It's us pesky GA guys that are flying VFR below the class B floor around the base...especially coming in and out of TPF.  Still, I have been well within 4 miles of the base (like 1/2 mile,) and have never been bothered.

 

Anymore though, there's not much happening at MacDill.  Besides CENTCOM, there's a few KC-135's and a couple of hurricane hunters and that's it.  I'm sure they were much more interested in their airspace when they had the 16's there though...

[Kattz 132]

Hi, Matt,

 

Ummm... yep, the scenery is very wrong, at least in my program.  Stationed there 84-88, F-16 DCC.  You're right that it's dead now, but I was there when there were 104 F-16A/B's there.  Showed up and wrenched on F-4's for about a month and then went to Vipers. and yes, back in those days the airspace was different.  When I did my SER out of Peter O'Knight on the bay just off of Bayshore, my instructor had me avoid that place like it had a bad case of VD.  He had gotten too close and received a "stern warning and an escort back to his airfield of origin."

 

There's a lot of scramble pads missing in the airfield texture from when it was a SAC base.  They were still there in '05 on my last visit.  The parking ramp in my sim goes to water, and that's where CENTCOM, Bayshore Dr, and the NCO Club are.

[scandinavian13 5,192]

 

 

Showed up and wrenched on F-4's for about a month and then went to Vipers. and yes, back in those days the airspace was different.

 

Would've loved to have some time on the Phantom.  I don't know why, but I think it's a pretty cool looking aircraft.

[FLEX1978 373]

Would've loved to have some time on the Phantom. I don't know why, but I think it's a pretty cool looking aircraft.

Hey Kyle, absolutely shameless plug that I'm sure will annoy some here - http://www.ebay.com/ctg/F4-Phantom-Pilots-Story-Robert-Prest-1979-Book-Illustrated-/4896362

 

My old man wrote this when he was in the RAF, I pretty much grew up surrounded by everything to do with the F4 Phantom, great childhood memories! I still enjoy staying at my parents and looking through all his F4 pictures/ manuals etc.. beautiful machine

 

Edit - don't know why they are so expensive in that link I can get you a copy if you want?

[scandinavian13 5,192]

 

 

My old man wrote this when he was in the RAF, I pretty much grew up surrounded by everything to do with the F4 Phantom, great childhood memories!

 

Nice!  I'm not bothered by the mention - heck, I plug my artwork wherever I can.  I was about to buy it and then realized my mom gets ###### every year I end up buying myself a bunch of stuff and can't come up with ideas for Christmas.  Oh the joys of batchelorhood...endless money to throw around at whatever you want without drawing the ire of a female...until your mother asks for Christmas ideas.

[Fabo 213]

 

 

Oh the joys of batchelorhood...endless money to throw around at whatever you want without drawing the ire of a female...until your mother asks for Christmas ideas.

 

Yep... not quite endless money on my part... but still. Anything that I wanted and it wasn't cheap enough to just buy for myself is too expensive for me to feel OK asking for it. (Or, to her, just too strange. A Steam gift certificate? What is that, like a season pass for a sauna? )

[Kattz 132]

2 years ago I needed money and sold my ejection seat plus parts.  It was the fwd seat from F-4C 64-0724.  It is now fully restored from all of my new-ish parts and in a museum in North Carolina.

[FLEX1978 373]

2 years ago I needed money and sold my ejection seat plus parts. It was the fwd seat from F-4C 64-0724. It is now fully restored from all of my new-ish parts and in a museum in North Carolina.

That's one of the reasons I wish I lived in the USA, by now I would have a full replica airliner and fighter cockpit built. Not to mention flying is so much cheaper, it costs me £140 an hour to rent a piper warrior in the uk, not to mention the weathers crap :( It's worse out here in Persian gulf, GA doesn't even exist.