A great way to increase realism would be to add “Circle to Land” and Sidestep controller commands.
Nice, but can you elaborate more? I don’t understand what you mean.
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What do you mean by Circle to land and side step?
Like sidestepping taxiways?
Side step landings are used at major airports. Let’s say a pilot is approaching 28L, they are instructed to fly the ILS to SFO 28L, then side step to 28R. It’s a traffic management approach to assist in throughput during tower operations. Minneapolis, where the runways are close together, uses it all the time.
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circle to land is available on nearly every instrument approach chart. It implies that the ceilings are high enough for the aircraft to break out of instrument, conditions, and circle to land add another runway. Here is a good example Teterboro airport ILS 06.
Take a look at the bottom of the chart. It has an entry for circling minimums. That’s a particularly dangerous airport to do circling, because of the W CBS, radio tower that comes in at 750~ feet, and a circle to land at 867.
One of the most dangerous, circling approaches is at Teterboro. You fly the ILS to runway six, AND THEN YOU ARE INSTRUCTED, CIRCLING RUNWAY ONE. SO YOU’RE FLYING IN OVER GIANTS STADIUM, AND YOU TAKE A HARD 120° TURN TO THE RIGHT, WHILE descending, and then lineup to land at about 700 feet to 500 feet on runway one. recently, a poorly piloted, Learjet stalled and drilled into the ground during this very turn.
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but runways have to be exactly parallel right? like if the airplane is closer to one runway than the other then is this still possible?
for the side step, the must be close to parallel.
Yep. I can confirm this.