India Xray

Just look at your road atlas for this Country, pick a town and its airport, then pick another town and its airport that you would expect to travel to in half an hour by road. Then fly instead.

If you want to spread your wings, pick another Country.

John Y

I take it you mean an ILS (Instrument Landing System) landing.

What you need to do is sort out a destination airport that has the system. Most of the major ones do.

In Flight Planner enter the destination then click ‘Find Route’. On the map that comes up expand the destination airport until you see a light green feather pointer. Hovver the mouse over that and you will see two figures; the ILS and MHz. Note these carefully. Also in the NavLog, note the height above sea level of your destination airport.

After clicking ‘Fly now’ and getting into the cockpit tune the Nav section of your radio to the MHz number and click the double headed arrow to make it active. Then set your OBS direction finder to the ILS (runway) number.

When you are some 20 miles from your destination reduce your altitude to between about 2000′ and 2500′ above the altitude of the airport.

Make sure you are more or less lined up with the runway in accordance with the ATC and gradually reduce your speed according to the aircraft your flying’s approach speed. Making sure your altitude is correct in the auto pilot, click it on if it’s not on already and then click on ‘Hdg’, ‘Alt’, then ‘App’ (approach).

You should see the ILS system come on in your OBS/Direction dial, and also that firstly your ‘Hdg’ (heading) indicator in your Autopilot will go out and then your ‘Alt’ indicator will go out. This will show you have been captured by the system.

You must operate your speed controls and flaps yourself. ILS doesn’t do that for you unless you are in the Flight Director that only the major jets have. To start with I would suggest you learn on the Cessna Skyhawk 172.

You need to give yourself time so its probably not a good idea to wait until the wheels touch before you turn off the Auto Pilot. I usually do this about a mile out. That gives me time for final flaps, throttle right down and a little bit of flare to if the speed is a little too fast.

If you find you come down early, it’s not the auto pilot, its because you haven’t kept up sufficient speed to keep the aircraft up.

Now, that’s my version of it. Its not a manual. For that you need to go to the learning centre in the simulator, which when I first started I must admit I found most complicated.

Hope it helps.

John Y

You know I’m not sure three screens is the answer any more. For the price of three screens you can get a really quite large good quality wide screen monitor and the VC will do the rest for you.

That will probably be more realistic.

John Y

Why do you want this when you can buy Horizon or JF?

JohnY

That’s a good idea, or failing that you can still buy FS2004 from Flightst-re for £29.99 telephone 01924 509273 or on line at http://www.Flightstore.co.uk

The other alternative of course is to use this as an opportunity to go the whole hog and get FSX. But you’ll need a really high end computer for that.

JohnY

Yes, Sorry.

I’ve just trawled through all the posts since before I joined in February 2007 and I can’t find it either.:( 😮

I could have sworn it was in this forum but it’s just possible it’s in the Horizon Forum, although why it would be I can’t think.

I’ll have a look and if I find it I’ll let you know. But don’t hold your breath.

I may have missed it in here. Go back to February 2007 and trawl forward – to do that click on the button at the bottom left of the current forum page.

If it’s in there, I seem to remember it being titled something like; ‘Can I use FS9 (or 2004) without putting the disk in?’

Another thing you could try is Google. Look for something like; ‘FS2004-4th disk’. See how you go with that. You never know you may be able to pick up a cheap version of FS9 from Ebay and that will have the 4th.disk with it.

Hope you find it soon. Otherwise its FSX for you, which will be no bad thing. Once you’ve tried that I doubt you’d want to go back to FS9.:D

Best wishes

John Y

If you look further down this forum you will find that there were some posts approximately 3 months ago about using FS9 without the disk in. You’ll find a website in one of the posts that supply the necessary download.

Hope it helps

JohnY

Yes, I doubt its Vista to blame. Now FSX is a different matter. Same firm, different department.

FSX has not been the best when it comes to ‘backward compatible’ but I’m sure you’ll find that virtually everything that was available for FS9 is now, or will be soon available for FX10.

Best wishes for your Chipmunk hunt. Did I spell that right?

John Y