Adam writes: > Is there an ILS instrument on the panel (cessna default)? I've a > friend who informs me that he enjoys landing his (proprietry) FS > with ILS. Do we have an equivalent in any aircraft, currently?
Yes, but I'd suggest that you not try it right away (I'm assuming that since you didn't recognize the VOR gauges, you have not had experience with this stuff before). There is a misinformed idea in the sim community that you can use ILS to learn how to land visually, but it will generally just lead to frustration, since you need to have much finer control of the plane for an instrument approach than for a visual one. Because ILS gets more sensitive towards the runway threshold, you will find it harder and harder to keep the two needles centered as the runway approaches, and will probably end up swinging back and forth with massive overcorrections. So start flying visually, and by all means, take a look at our attitude-flying tutorial: http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/Tutorials/circuit/index.html When you are very comfortable holding a heading (+- 5 degrees) and an altitude (+-50 feet), and can do reasonable visual takeoffs and landings, you can learn more about instrument approaches here: http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
