Good evening.

Take Farnborough. The default setting is planes landing at runway 25. Below is the arport information.

Farnborough (EGLF)

ATIS Frequency:    128.400 MHz
Tower Frequency:   122.500 MHz
Approach Frequency:       125.250 MHz
Approach Frequency:       134.350 MHz
Approach Frequency:       130.050 MHz

Latitude:         N51* 16.55'
Longitude:       W0* 46.58'
Elevation:       +237
Code:

Runway   Length    Surface   ILS ID   ILS Freq   ILS Hdg.
25      	 7874     Asphalt     IFNB     111.55       247
 

For this, I'll be flying the default aircraft, Cessna 182RG. I'll be flying a traffic pattern.

Can anybody guide me through the ILS approach and how I go about it then please?

Thanks,
Gareth.

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Indeed, I had my Pink Floyd CD on at the time, so I pressed Q. 

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Okay.

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Ah. What plane do you recommend using then?

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I've just been doing that before I saw this post, and that's what happened, except mine went to the left.

I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks.

Just like it says:

Once you have the right frequency and you hit Approach and AP the plane does it by itself.

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Farnborough must only do the localizer then and no glideslope then.

I also find it useful to use the EFIS which allows you to see the glide path.  Plus, if you want to, you can drop the AP and fly the HUD. 8)

Ok, let me do this a little simpler, first off I suggest a simple airport, try McKinney Municipal (KTKI) in McKinney Texas. LONG runway, you can practice with any aircraft there. Tune the runway 17 ILS frequency in NAV1 while at the end of runway 17 preparing for take off (17 is the default runway). The horizontal bar should move to the top of the guage or the attitude indicator, depending on the aircraft you use.
Take off, fly the pattern, request a Touch and Go landing. Fly the plane south of the airport, use the VASI or PAPI lights (those are the red and white lights to the left of the runway) to line up, when you have two red and two white lights, turn and line up with the runway, keep there two red and two white lights and you are perfectly on a visual glidescope. The ILS beams on your gauge will show a perfect approach if you folllow a visual.
Now, the autopilots in the airliners and commuters are MUCHO BETTER at following an ILS then a Cessna is. However, the whole thing is screwed, and you will need to pretty much put it on the ILS yourself before the A/P wil take over and fly it. Turning it on at a random altitude and heading will usually result in hell going loose, since the A/P will oscilate the plane all over trying to capture the course (I decided to see if this was the truth, flew it in a real Cessna 172 at KTKI, which is my home airport. by the way, ILS isnt standard in a 172, a damn A/P isnt standard lol. The autopilot preformed a smooth turn to 176 (runway heading) descded, captured the glidescope, and flew the approach, no problemo). Notice, you should NEVER let the plane fly the full approach to the ground, it is bad for you, and it is NEVER done in reality. If you cannot see the runway by decision height, go around, DO NOT FLY THE APPROACH. Heavies sometimes use the APPR feature even in good weather, since they are hard to move around anyways. If you use the approach feature in Flight Simulator ALL the way to the runway to the ground, you will hit and you WILL hit very hard. (for some reason, M$ took out the feature which was in 95 that caused the airplanes to flare at the last second, gave a VERY smooth landing).
So, simply, tune the ILS, get the bars in the center of the gauge, and fly a normal approach, or get the bars in the center, let the A/P fly the approach to decision height, and you land it.
Once again, DO NOT let the A/P fly the approach all the way to the ground, it will hit still desceding in an approach, and will break the landing gear off most realistic planes and leave you surrounded with fire trucks. Good luck, have fun, and I hope this helped!