I understand your issues but again from my limited experience they are totally 2 different things, ILS, NDB, VOR are made for flying. Now the ILS is precise and it will take you dead center straight down the runway otherwise how will you do a CATII or CATIII or a 0/0 landing in your airplane? So while flying the ILS with your GPS make sure that the OBS letter are on or Nav but not GPS.įSX is not precise and ADE that can master it by dedicated guys like Ray Smith and all the great folks that burn their brains and eyes correcting runway headings and correcting ILS, VOR, NDB and what not that are installed on the airports surrounding areas that are needed to make the approach plates work right. At the moment some airports already offer GPS precision approaches but I'm not up to date on this information but is coming no doubt about that. ILS is a precise approach because it provides the precise vertical and horizontal position of your airplane while you are flying the approach so it's your duty and responsibility to keep those gauges dead center with a minor + or - deviation but believe me in real IFR you want to be dead center on those gauges/dials or LCD. If you check the approach plates, all of them will give you the exact heading that you are supposed to follow and in those plates you'll see the numbers 182, 243, etc. ILS is another story and it's a PRECISE approach compared to the non precise VOR, NDB and GPS approaches. Just browse the FAA website for airport and approach plates/procedures and you'll see the real numbers for your airport's runways. The number on the runway are not precise but the numbers on your approach plates and airport and facilities directory are very precise and that's where you'll find out that runway 16 is 162 on your HI/compass and 18 in reality is 184, etc.
It seems some airports are not orientated correctly.įrom my limited experience all I can say is that the numbers on any runway like 26, 18, etc is just the heading on your compass assuming you keep it in line with your magnetic compass and properly calibrated but by no means they are precise, so assuming your are heading 270 and ATC tells to land on runway 8 guess what you have to do to reach runway 8 and as you turn final to runway 8 you'll see on your compass and HI that 8 is approaching the nose of your plane and then you align and land. If you have Flightbeam KSFO, line up on 28L and dial in the runway heading, you will find a discrepency of a few degrees.
Some airports in FSX have runways that when you line youself on the runway for take off and dial in the runway heading, they don't match. I thought that if the aircraft shows aligned with the runway on my instruments it should also be aligned with the actual runway. I key in the ILS frequency of the destination runway into the gps, switch to GPS from NAV, take-off, switch on autopilot (altitude, VOR hold, airspeed etc) and I can see the aircraft becomes aligned with the runway on my flight instruments yet when I get closer to the destination airport the runway is skewed and positioned perpendicular with the aircraft. I just got back to FSX and learned to navigate by VOR and program the autopilot but it doesn't work quite how I want. Please forgive me if this has been covered before but it hasn't showed up in my results.
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