Flight Simulator 2004 ILS approach issue?

Question

Ok, I am flying a Cessna Skyhawk in Flight Simulator 2004 and I am trying to do an ILS approach and landing. I am flying with IFR.

What I do is: I find the runway/airport I'm going to land, Write down the ILS Frequency, Put in the frequency into the NAV 1 radio then set it to active. After that, I get my clearance for takeoff with IFR. I take off to the right altitude (4,000) and head towards the airport I'm going to land.

But when I turn on Autopilot with the NAV light on, the plane turns back around to the airport I took off from.

What am I doing wrong? I put in the correct ILS frequency every time, but the autopilot still heads back to the airport I took off.

Is there anything I'm missing or need to do?

Answer 1

Are you sure the ILS frequency you've entered is for the ILS assigned to the exact runway on which you wish to land at the destination airport? If you set the ILS frequency for a runway at the departure airport, the autopilot may attempt to turn around and head for that airport.



Don't switch to NAV or APP mode until you're about to intercept the extended centerline of your destination runway. Typically you tune the ILS, then head for the extended centerline at a shallow angle and below the glide slope. As you close in on the centerline, you arm NAV (or LOC). The autopilot will then capture the localizer as it enters the beam and turn the aircraft towards the runway. At that point, if you're equipped for it, you can arm APP and the autopilot will capture the glide slope as it intercepts it from below. From that point on, you should be good for your approach.



Don't arm LOC if you are still far away from the airport. You only do it just before you actually fly through the localizer beam.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You can't navigate to a localizer, it's an approach aid, not a navigation aid. No autopilot could navigate onto an ILS by just tuning in the frequency. I suggest you do a bit of reading on instrument flying, or better yet take some flying lessons.



You need to navigate to the localizer somehow, either by NDB, GPS, VOR, VOR/DME, TACAN, vectors...something. An approach plate would show you how (if you know how to read it), I bet your local flight school would give you some expired ones if you asked.

Answer 4

Have the ILS freq. Already entered earlier than you get on course. Once you intercept the localizer hit strategy lock. This will have to put you on direction. Maintain in mind in case you are too shut within the auto pilot is going to be chasing the localizer and the drift slope and you will now not have a enough room to get based. Use the GPS with vectors to final to get a excellent course to enter in. Watch your airspeed considering it's going to bleed off rapid. You're going to must maintain making thottel changes. In the event you get too sluggish you are going to emerge as in need of the runway in a firey dying crash. MS 2004 does no longer have auto flare so you are going to have got to kick off the a/p after you go the internal marker or while you feel that you could manipulate the aircraft with out coming up short. The VOR was once explained lovely good above. If you tune that freq. Flip the heading bug until the loc. Needle lines up with the heading. Make certain the arrow is pointing within the "to" path as oposed to the "away" direction. Fly that heading to the fix. You should utilize your DME to peer how far out you're. Hope that helps.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

tune into any nearby ADF. that should sort your problem.



like Bradley said [in the real world] you cannot navigate towards localiser. among other reasons, because it has some 20 NM range in the landing fan, and most of all, it has side beams and back beams at similar wave phase... meaning that you can capture the -say- 200 deg phase while flying 060 heading.



so, if your autopilot is capable of following the ADF, tune in a nearby ADF. if not, then simply find the proper STAR approach plate, locate the favourable IAP initial approach point, see how that's defined and tune into the device to which it is defined.



you will see something like CISCO (RAD 210 RUR VOR, 25.7 NM) information. [nota bene, this one is made up]



something like this

http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1208/00373BAYVU.PDF

(link from http://www.airnav.com/airport/SAN)

or you can try vatsim.. they have charts for the virtual pilots that are updated with the real charts

at this chart, any point with five letters is a "significant" point. here, you see the HURBD point.. it's at RAD 085 from SXC VOR, at 43 nm? the rest of points are rather fuzzy defined by routing along them; there is dedicated section of national AIP to define them, though.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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