57 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

...Or sometimes I feel mischievous and just disregard all common sense - it’s a sim 😜

Exactly!  It is a sim.  I try difficult things like landing the DC-3 at Lukla!  

16 hours ago, Nemo said:

...especially at low wind conditions. I'm mostly flying PMDGs 737 and usually, I start programming my approach and runway when I've passed TOD. How can I find out which runways MSFS would assign to ai traffic (FSLTL) at that stage of the flight? There is nothing worse than ai using the opposite direction.

I not familiar how FS is configuered to decide an active runway. In general you would want to land into the wind. Other variables come into play such as runway slope, condition of runway, obstacles and any other unforseen event near runway. Don't if you are able to request a favorable in FS.

10 minutes ago, PIPER042 said:

I not familiar how FS is configuered to decide an active runway

Sometimes I wonder if an invisible D20 is thrown to decide..

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After the birefing, Simbrief gives out which runways may be used for departure and arrival. That's what I use for preflight.

For anyone using AI traffic: Check out AIGround and AIFlow on flightsim.to. You can force the AI traffic to land on the runways you want (e.g. those active in real life). No more suicidal AI traffic, it's pure gold.

Because I still can´t find good YouTube tutorials how to let the autopilot fly back course ILS landings on GA planes the ideal landing runway is always where the ILS beam leads to. (The Airbus does not need back course but can use the virtual flight landing system FLS flightpath virtualization or simply any RNAV approach, so BC ILS seems to be purely a GA-thing.)

Does someone know how to let the autopilot fly a BC approach? From various YouTube videos to find out what a back course even is I could at least collect a few infos:

NAV 1 NAV 2 and RNAV: set to ILS frequency.

From/To arrow on the VOR or HSI instrument: directed to "to"

Course needle: arrow directed downwards to the south end of the HSI. Non-arrowhead end of the needle directed at the ILS CRS.

Regular Jeppesen chart ILS course of the runway but + 180° degrees is set as new ILS CRS.

Autopilot BC + APPR buttons pressed.

Is this half-way correct how to do it? Because it still does not function and it does not follow a glidepath down to the runway simply overflies the runway be keeping the altitude.

when flying on vatsim, I normally look at FR24 so see what they are doing in the real world, I then choose the opposite runway or a completely different one altogether, its seems im not alone especially at evenings, weekends and school holidays.

@JetCat that's an interesting question, which makes me think of why you want to do it this way? Doesn't most airports have ILS for both runway directions?

It's extremely rare that I fly a backcourse in the sim, and I've only ever done it with a VOR. So I wanted to test how it works with ILS. I chose randomly the Black Square Caravan, took off from NZWN. Then tuned ILS Rwy 16 and used it in BC mode to fly inbound to Rwy 34. 

Don't think the glideslope would work this way, but the Caravan AP can at least track the ILS BC. 

 

Edited April 12, 20242 yr by Cpt_Piett

1 hour ago, JetCat said:

Because I still can´t find good YouTube tutorials how to let the autopilot fly back course ILS landings on GA planes the ideal landing runway is always where the ILS beam leads to. (The Airbus does not need back course but can use the virtual flight landing system FLS flightpath virtualization or simply any RNAV approach, so BC ILS seems to be purely a GA-thing.)

Does someone know how to let the autopilot fly a BC approach? From various YouTube videos to find out what a back course even is I could at least collect a few infos:

NAV 1 NAV 2 and RNAV: set to ILS frequency.

From/To arrow on the VOR or HSI instrument: directed to "to"

Course needle: arrow directed downwards to the south end of the HSI. Non-arrowhead end of the needle directed at the ILS CRS.

Regular Jeppesen chart ILS course of the runway but + 180° degrees is set as new ILS CRS.

Autopilot BC + APPR buttons pressed.

Is this half-way correct how to do it? Because it still does not function and it does not follow a glidepath down to the runway simply overflies the runway be keeping the altitude.

I assume you are referring to instrument flying . And no GA airplanes based on wind,  not instrument approach.

For example  CRQ ILS 24 approach (see link below). Lets say there are instrument weather condition and wind prevailing to land  runway 6. Your aircraft is not equipped  with appropriate IFR certified GPS and OCN VOR out of service. You still can fly ILS runway 24  but you will circle to land runway 6. You can see circling minimums at the bottom of approach chart  

https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2403/05310IL24.PDF