November 21, 200619 yr >I use the GPS if it's a fresh airport I don't have the >freq's for, or they clear me to a new runway, etc.>But... You first need to choose an approach..>Some airports don't have them, but of course they wouldn't >have any ILS freq's either.. Lets say I fly to KLIT and need>the freq for ILS 04L. I click on "PROC" and then scroll to >"select approach" and hit enter. I'll choose ILS 04L as an>example.>I'll usually choose vectors and hit enter to load. Then go>back to the regular map. "FPL". To find the frequencies, >hit the top right pointing arrow on the GPS. Then hit the >bottom left button. You will then see a list of every>frequency...MK:This is all well and good, but how do you derive the accurate *course* setting for the appropriate ILS frequency? I generally depend on paper charts, but when flying to airports that I have no charts ready for, I find myself stopping the sim (I hate it, of course) and using the Map function. The GPS can give me the frequency, but as far as I can tell, it cannot give me the course.Or am I missing something?
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