Hi,

I went through the ILS landing tutorial on the x-plane "Flight School" and now I want to program the navigation system so I can make ILS landings at an air port I choose.

Is there any documentation on how to do this? 

Yesterday I did the VOR tutorial and was able to find VOR frequencies (https://skyvector.com) and documentation on how to input them into the navigation sytem (https://x-plane.com/manuals/G530_Manual.pdf) on the plane (the Cessna Skyhawk). I also found useful information on the autopilot (https://www.x-plane.com/manuals/S-TEC_Autopilot_Manual.pdf).

 

Today I can't find anything to help with configuring ILS landings. Do you look up a frequency and enter it in the nav system like with VOR? Where do you find the frequencies?

 

Thanks,

You can press M while in game, then change the map to IFR Low (or something like that), you will see the cones of the ILS for every airport in range, you can click on them to tune them directly to nav1-2 or just to write down the frequency and the course of them 🙂

Try this... fly towards the threshold at full speed. Turn off the prop. Glide a little. Put it on the asphalt. ILS?

36 minutes ago, Colonel X said:

Try this... fly towards the threshold at full speed. Turn off the prop. Glide a little. Put it on the asphalt. ILS?

Having the threshold in sight is a real bonus when flying the approach - eliminates all that DH/go around word not allowed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEzHH9cBndE

Edited February 26, 20206 yr by Bjoern

Instructed instruments for sixteen years - wish I'd had that gent's chatter and he seems to know whereof he speaks.

On 2/26/2020 at 10:42 AM, ap4ivw said:

I can't find anything to help with configuring ILS landings. Do you look up a frequency and enter it in the nav system like with VOR? Where do you find the frequencies?

 

 

Some of the documentation I was looking for is here:

https://x-plane.com/manuals/desktop/11/index.html#navigationautopilotsandflyingoninstruments

The frequencies are available on charts, the default 'map' and, if you Google, you may find a list of only ILS frequencies.  If you can enter a VOR freq then ILS is the same and be sure on the NAV radio that's set for HSI in front of the pilot   Good basic info at these sites  .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system   
http://www.airnav.com/

For practice, fly out to a local airport with an ILS - in the sim no worries about traffic.  Go about ten miles out from the runway with the ILS and point towards the runway end.  Switch the appropriate freq, which you'll know cause you've already looked it up and entered as 'standby.  The vertical needle is the localizer and it should be alive - fly towards the needle for on course.  It's twice as sensitive as a VOR radial so mini inputs.  There will be an altitude restriction 'til you cross the outer marker - a 75 mhz beacon which, in my day, flashed a blue light at passage.  Until now the glde slope needle has been pointed  at the top of your display but now will start moving down towards center.  Time to begin your descent - experience will have shown the best power setting for this.  To correct use mini power adjustments fly up/down (your nose is the needle) to center the needle.  While you're watching all this, pay close attention to your altimeter watching for DH (decision height).  If you don't see it there, go around.  Do this also if the needles move very far off (different strokes for different folks).  Of course, if you're coupled to an AP then this is all rhetoric but I'm a pre push-button type.

Edited February 27, 20206 yr by olderndirt