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EHM-0948 Bruno:
Pedrosa,
The idea is simple. ILS locking with APP (Approach) means that the plane will try to follow an invisible line on the air that "somehow" leads to the threshold point on the configured runway.
Now, to do this, the airplane uses altitude and bearing adjustments. The rest is on you. Now, how can you decrease or increase your vertical speed ? With speed. That means, if you are getting to quickly to the ground (too much vertical speed) you put some more power on the airplane and the glidescope needle will get adjusted. If you go too fast, you will not get too much vertical speed to make the plane go down, so you need to take off throttle.
Hope that helps.
EHM-1358 Tim:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by YR-TGM
We have pilots with 10s or 100s of hours who can't even fly an ILS approach??? :! I think I will introduce exams for new and existing pilots!!!
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But before you do that, you need to make a nice juicey libary of helpful stuff for ILS etc
EHM-1365 Benjamin:
The way I learnt to fly with the ILS was with the actual lessons on FS(2000 at the time...was a while ago!)
As for the APP hold, it kinda defeats the object of having a pilot....too much fly-by-wire around for my preference. The cruising is rather boring, and so is the landing with the approach hold.
Maybe its just me...
EHM-0001 Gergely:
yep, you could check the FS Flying Lessons, there are tutorials and flights about ILS approach (Instrument Pilot, Lesson 2).
EHM-1001 Robert:
The ILS glideslope is a virtual line ;D , that have an average 3 degrees descendeing. It means, if your proper approach speed is about 140...160 KIAS, then -calculated from the speed and the 3 degs- you should hold an optimum -800 fpm descending rate. Because the approach speed is an ideal value for each plane, holding ILS rather means keeping a descending rate than keeping the speed. Although it works too, if you adjust your descending rate with adjusting thrust, following the ILS is more likely about keeping a static descending rate and a good heading vector.
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