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Radio contact inbound to airport (Read 565 times)
Mar 3rd, 2004 at 8:47am

SteveC   Offline
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I have found that to be able to line myself up for a landing correctly in a Boeing or an Airbus, I require 30 - 40 nm indication as to what runway I am to land on.

With the autotune feature, the airport I want to land at only comes up as an option about 20 nm out.

What is the best way to counter this. Do I run a VERY wide pattern, or do I try to anticipate the active runway?
 
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Reply #1 - Mar 6th, 2004 at 2:26pm

Dan   Offline
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I would have thought the best idea was to try  to guess the active. If you are flying in calm air, then it will be the best ILS equiped runway.
Hang on, just remembered! If you don't have FS navigator, then get it. ( www.fsnavigator.com ) Otherwise, go onto map mode (View Menu?), click on the airport you are going to and note the ATIS frequencys. Open your radio stack (Normally Shift + 2) and tune the frequency into the COM1 radio. Flick it from backup to main, listen to the broadcast and you will hear somthing like 'landing and departing Runway 12, aproach in use'. Thats the runway.
Hope I help, Dan G  Wink
 
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