I emailed Sky regarding this, basically telling them that their channel called “Discovery Wings” is in fact a lie, because it contains programs regarding trains & cars now, I also stated the point that they should either change the name, because technically it is not a wings channel any more or they should move the rubbish to one of the other 10 or so discovery channels they have. Their response was to tell me that the viewing schedule had no plans to change and that the current line up caters for a wide variety of interests. My point still remains valid that they should change the name of the channel, some people are pretty clueless, hmmm, discovery wings, but we’ll load it up with cars & trains, like COME ON for goodness sake

/rant over 🙂

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The best way to ascertain your approach speed for a given weight is to think that your Vref, that’s your speed over the threshold speed should give you a 2-5 degree nose up profile from about 4nm to run which will be the outer marker on an ILS, you should not be diving the jet into the threshold like it’s a Cessna, the positive nose profile is there to help prevent a nose in landing, if your nose attitude is lower than that suggested then you need to decrease speed slightly (say 5kts) then wait for the change, if your nose is too high then increase speed slightly (5kts) then wait for the change, all this is based on the 3 degree descent on a standard ILS

Here in this pic you have

MCP (Mode Control Panel) Basically your Autopilot commands
ASI Your digital & analogue Airspeed Indicators
PFD Your Primary Flight Display, if you see here at the scale you will notice a positive nose attitude of about 7 degrees, you need between 2-5degrees nose up for the approach as stated above.
VSI Your Vertical Speed Indicator, your rate of climb or descent in ft per min
HSI Your Horizontal Situation Indicator, basically where your navaids tuned will display information
RMI Your Radio Magnetic Indicator, basically displays VOR/DME radials / ranges

Edited, forgot to add
Altimeter Obviously your Height, or altitude or Flight Level dependant on what baro setting you are using,
FL is based apon the 1013 datum, so if you use flight levels you must have 1013.25 set.
Height is when you have QFE set in the altimeter, this will read height aal on approach
Altitude is with QNH set, airfield QNH or regional QNH and below 3,000ft transition altitude in general, transition altitude is the point where you set 1013.25 in the climb for Flight Level but this can raise to 6,000ft around major airports like London & Manchester.
To set the regional QNH and fly altitude just hit “B” and this automatically sets your altimeter to the regional QNH.

Dean

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I have a load of FS2002 add-ons that I don’t use, all are A1 & brand new, PM me if you are interested

Dean

Great pics Paul, is that thing turbo charged? 😉

Love the Cargolux 744F

It’s just mumbo jumbo 😉

If the plane is going to crash it’s going to crash, what if the other xxx number of pax have not done their “superstitions” then you’ve had it no matter how many times you do it, I’m sure if you dived into a cliff at 550mph you will perish with the rest and won’t be able to walk free 😀

Yes there are some muppets around.
What gets me are the people who whine about airports & the noise planes make, but then on the other foot, they go and board an aircraft to go on holiday, someone, somewhere will hear your plane’s noise, and this makes you the biggest hypocrite walking the face of this earth, if people want to moan & whine then don’t EVER board a plane, GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr

I only know of a couple of NDB approaches in Australia Paul, I don’t know of any non-precisions here in the UK at all, but I guess it’s useful for these guys no flight sim “just incase” 😀

Dean