Guys,

 

Thank you all for the fantastic support/response but I do need to put this issue to bed. The problem is  not the scenery, FMC, PMDG or any NAV data it is me........operator error.

Yep I agree :-)

 

Ps no, there is not Loc backcourse capture mode on the 777.

You would just fly it with Lnav or Hdg/Tck select.

 

 

Ps no, there is not Loc backcourse capture mode on the 777.

 

Thought so, but I wasn't 100% sure on that one.

(no such thing as a backcourse ILS - if there is, it's non-standard and outside of the US...regardless, no backcourse anything for the 777 as far as I know).

Yes, true, JFK it's not a real backcourse ILS, because the shared frequencies are not on the same runway. It's more like a "crossed" backcourse (if such thing even exists), because the common frequencies ( 110.90 and 109.50 ) are shared between 4R and 22R and 4L and 22L.

 

A shared frequency on the same runway, is not so uncommon in Europe. In the UK, many ILS use the same frequency for both ends of the same runway, with the DME in the middle of the runway, but offset to read 0 at BOTH runway thresholds. Glasgow ( EGPF ) is an example of this. I think only one end is operational at any given time.

 

 

A shared frequency on the same runway, is not so uncommon in Europe. In the UK, many ILS use the same frequency for both ends of the same runway, with the DME in the middle of the runway, but offset to read 0 at BOTH runway thresholds. Glasgow ( EGPF ) is an example of this. I think only one end is operational at any given time.

 

Yeah, we do the same at IAD. The same frequency is used for both directions on the same runway. I'm not sure of the reasoning behind how JFK does it.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow American simmers

Not American, but still.....Happy "big dinner day" to you as well ;-)

Happy Thanksgiving, gals and guys.

 

Not so much Thanksgiving here in Germany, but we do enjoy those massive flightsim sales and addon discounts.  

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow American simmers

 

 

 

Not American, but still.....Happy "big dinner day" to you as well ;-)

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving, gals and guys.

Not so much Thanksgiving here in Germany, but we do enjoy those massive flightsim sales and addon discounts.

 

Thank you all very much, and happy sale days!

 

Mike

Whell, for starters, create an useful title for your post that does not create a mystery package.

"failing to pick up  the G/S only the LOC ON MY T7", might have been a choice. Maybe not the best choice possible, because some, like me, might not know what a "T7" is.

 

Many software publishers are going to the use of the forum in an effort to transfer the cost of finding and solving problems to the consumer.

 

It is a method to present descriptions of problems and, by concerted effort of the members, to find solutions to those problems.

 

Such a forum, to be useful, needs to be as dry and exact as possible. Unordered information loses much of it's value.

 

Each set of posts, starting with a title as concise and descriptive as possible,  needs to be as thin as possible and cut to the solution of "a" problem. 

 

Related problems, and/or information need titles, concise and descriptive, and posting of their own. 

 

Social interaction, while pleasant, dilutes the documents needed to accomplish the task. A quotation of poetry maybe enjoyable, but is not very useful in the middle of an engine start checklist.   

 

A sharp eye will notice that this post violates everything I have said a post should be.  But, I have no real hope that this or any forum will function, according to my opinion, in anything other than a chatroom/blog.  So, what do you think? "Any ideas"?

Man...someone's certainly a ray of sunshine today...

 

I'm glad the posts here aren't required to be everything you have said they should be. While I, like you, prefer information over fluff, along with useful titles, the rant somewhat defeats your own point.

 

For the record, I agree with the points, though I probably would've said it a different way (and more succinctly if one of my points was that posts should be succinct).

happy flier, I have two words  for you from an Irish  poet Pogue Mahon

"Rant"? What a sheltered life you must have lived if you can call that a "rant".

 

Sorry, I made a mistake about what to expect, and I reacted badly to the shock of what I did find.

 

(Managed to make a newbie mistake and posted many duplicate posts on the way)

 

I thought the purpose of this forum was akin to that of a library: to assemble an usable body of knowledge about a specific subject.  

 

To be sharp, and clean, and as easy to use as possible.

 

Create a list problems, and their solutions.

 

What I did find was a social club, much like the saloons pictured in the movies, Interesting, and colorful.

 

Full of people who will shoot you down at the drop of a hat, and the will drop the hat themselves.

 

Even hired guns, possibly paid by big companies to be there. You know, to control the conversation  and what is said.

Not too sure the saloon keeper isn't in on that too.

 

Sure, some information is available, after picking your way through the crowd, and sorting the bit of information you need from one particular sentence buried in the babble of conversation.

 

Social is good, I am enjoying myself. Belly up to the bar, and I will pay for the next round of drinks.

 

 

This is fun.

 

Oh, and to save someone else having to Google it: Pogue Mahone (the Gaelic phrase for "kiss my a**")

It's called 'AVSIM community' for a reason. And I like it.

lol, I am Irish and I deliberately misspelled it to avoid the censors , but you got the message, correct spelling Pogue Mo Thoin