Name: How to: Fly an ILS Approach

Category: FS Instructional Videos

Date Added: 01 May 2014 - 10:49 PM

Submitter: Alpha Floor

Short Description: None Provided

 

This video shows how to install and fly an ILS approach from the Initial Approach Fix (IAF) all the way down to touchdown.

 

The approach chosen is the ILS30 at Tenerife North (GCXO).

 

The chart for the approach is: http://i.imgur.com/OPDnQ9j.png

 

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Good video. I'm sure lots will find it useful.

 

Any chance of a visual approach tutorial? I find these quite hard. I'm getting better as I hand fly down from the instant I'm line up on the LOC but actually doing a visual approach with no FD cues I find challenging.

Hi James,

 

On a big jet like a 777, you're normally planning to fly an instrument approach. Once you get close to the airport and establish visual contact with the field you can ask ATC for a visual approach. If there's no traffic they'll clear you to fly visually. In the USA both pilots and ATC love to use visual approaches whenever possible, I like that. In Europe they usually stick more to the approach chart.

 

You do it just like you would on any general aviation aircraft, minding the larger turning radius. Traffic pattern altitude of the 777 (any commercial jet) is 1500' above airport elevation. 

 

On the 2 video tutorial I did on touch & goes I fly visually on the traffic pattern, you should check it out! Basically when you're coming in from somewhere else you'll enter the pattern directly on the downwind leg and continue from there just like I do on my video. The key is configuring the aircraft and slowing down soon enough. I like to be fully configured for landing and on approach speed before turning to final.

 

Here's the link, starting right on the downwind: http://youtu.be/qJ-8TH9ecp8?t=37m40s

Nice video!