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''See [[Instrument Landing System]] for the main article.''
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First thing to do is setting up the radio settings. We go to Equipment > Radio settings and fill our frquency (110.30) in the first NAV1 box. That's all we have to do to be sure our plane will find the ILS or 27R.
First thing to do is setting up the radio settings. We go to Equipment > Radio settings and fill our frquency (110.30) in the first NAV1 box. That's all we have to do to be sure our plane will find the ILS or 27R.


Now we need to slow down a bit and slowly decend to 2000 ft, this is the maximum height where our plane could find the ILS.
Now we need to slow down a bit and slowly descend to 2500 ft, this is the maximum height where our plane could find the ILS.
 
===Final===
Put your landing gear down at 7 miles out. Apply full flaps if you are withing 4-5 nm of the airport. Try to maintain your height or descend a bit more to 2500 ft.
 
[[Image:ILS_autopilot.jpg|thumb|270px|The [[autopilot]] settings for an ILS approach with the [[Boeing 737|B737]].]]
 
====Autopilot====
If you are withing the ILS range you could turn on the autopilot. To get your plane lined up with the runway and on the correct glideslope you have to use the settings shown on the picture on the right (the speed depends on your planes landing speed!). Now change nothing and let the ILS do its work.


===Autopilot===
==Touch down==
TODO
Immediately as you touch down you should turn off the autopilot and steer the plane manually. Use thurstreversers, airbrakes and brakes to slow your plane down.

Revision as of 18:19, 25 April 2008

See Instrument Landing System for the main article.

In this tutorial we will land a Boeing 737 at London Heathrow (EGLL). The principe is everywhere the same, only the numbers are different.

Preflight

Use these settings in the FlightGear Wizard (Advanced.. > Initial Position):

Longitude 0
Latitude 51.47759
Altitude 5000
Heading 270
Airspeed 350
The MP Map with ILS information for EGLL 27R.

MP Map

With a few modifications the MP Map is ver useful for ILS landings. If we wanna land at an airport we go to the 'nav'-tab and tick on the 'apt' button below 'show'. Now you'll see blue lines on the runways, a box with the name of the airport in red and a box at ever end of a runway. To show the ILS info of a runway we press the square next to the runway name. Now a yellow triangle will appear. This is the area where our plane will pick up the ILS. So you need to get in this triangle to land.

Approach

With this tutorial your flight will start 12 nm out of EGLL. You're at 5000 ft and line up with 27R. That's the runway we'll land on.

Long final

First thing to do is setting up the radio settings. We go to Equipment > Radio settings and fill our frquency (110.30) in the first NAV1 box. That's all we have to do to be sure our plane will find the ILS or 27R.

Now we need to slow down a bit and slowly descend to 2500 ft, this is the maximum height where our plane could find the ILS.

Final

Put your landing gear down at 7 miles out. Apply full flaps if you are withing 4-5 nm of the airport. Try to maintain your height or descend a bit more to 2500 ft.

The autopilot settings for an ILS approach with the B737.

Autopilot

If you are withing the ILS range you could turn on the autopilot. To get your plane lined up with the runway and on the correct glideslope you have to use the settings shown on the picture on the right (the speed depends on your planes landing speed!). Now change nothing and let the ILS do its work.

Touch down

Immediately as you touch down you should turn off the autopilot and steer the plane manually. Use thurstreversers, airbrakes and brakes to slow your plane down.