So I had an experience yesterday.
I wanted to land at an airport at Bogota
The airport was 8000ft above sea level.
Thus I made my final approach 11000ft, that is 3000ft above the airport level
Lo and behold, APPR refused to work on that altitude. It just went high over the runway.
How do I solve this next time or what did I do wrong?
Hello, Iām not sure I have enough information to understand exactly what went wrong, but here are some common oversights off the top of my head:
- Not tuned to proper NAV frequency (runway ILS not tuned to NAV radios)
- Above G/S (too high to intercept glideslope, you must intercept from below)
- NAV1/2 not selected in āSourceā
- Aircraft not equipped with APPR mode
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Thank you, Iāve never had to select NAV1 from source since Iāve been using APPR, that is a thing? It has always worked fine without me doing that.
Yep, NAV 1 must be correctly tuned and selected.
I wish they had an Altimeter function in the game so you could set it to the correct value. This would help avoid issues like this.
Actually hereās this.
3000ft and go closer and have NAV 1 turned on.
Also Have the Correct speed.
Clicking on APPR will automatically select NAV1 as the source.
You said that the aircraft flew over the runway, that means that the G/S was either not intercepted, or your speed was too high for the APPR to glide down to the runway.
You also said that you were at 11,000ft, thatās great, but how far from the runway did you reach this altitude ? (A replay file could help if possible)
Finally, were you overweight ? APPR only works when airplane weight is lower than the MLW.
Hi, I assume from your comment:
That you didnāt get the āspeed too highā or āweight too highā warning, but that your aircraft didnāt descent with the GS (glideslope).
If you started the approach above the GS, it would obviously cause a problem with intercepting the GS.
But assuming you were below the GS before intercepting (as the tutorials instruct), and as the GS needle came down, your aircraft failed to capture, from my experience, that does occasionally happen.
I havenāt been able to find a reproducible cause for this (though if it happens, I manually start the descent by lowering the Alt setting and dialing in my own VS temporarily).
Whenever I try to test for the above, APPR always works! (unfortunate only in that it fails to reveal what Iām looking for).
But, I wouldnāt think that terrain altitude would have any effect, as long as you have the proper height above the ground.