[bvipilots] Re: Landing Boing 747

  • From: "Christian" <christian08@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:53:18 +0100

Hi Tony,
I did a flight here locally in Sweden from Stockholm Arlanda to Gothenburg 
Landvetter.
Please let me know how it goes for you.
I am actually thinking about having a flight to London Heathrow tonight just to 
see how it goes if I will get the same there as well.
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2011-11-22 at 17:08 Tony wrote:

>I had that problem once flying to Geneva.
>
>What airport are you flying to, I'd be prepared to give it a go.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>On Behalf Of Jordan Gallacher
>Sent: 22 November 2011 00:38
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>Subject: [bvipilots] Re: Landing Boing 747
>
>No you should not have to turn it on manually.  I have had this happen too
>with other aircraft, and if this happens more than twice, I forget it.  I
>tell Michelle to do a visual approach.  If everything is truely set
>correctly, an ILS approach should work just fine, but like I said above,
>I've had the same issues.  Maybe your plane was still going to fast, but
>just throwing that idea out there.
>Jordan
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>On Behalf Of Christian
>Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 6:00 PM
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>Subject: [bvipilots] Landing Boing 747
>
>Hi all,
>Well, I have had problems landing the Boing 747 using ILS and i think I am
>doing everything right.
>I have in IYP checked autolanding as well as blind pilots mode.
>When I am getting closer to the airport and ATC gives me the frequency I
>say
>to Michelle for example load the ILS frequency for runway 26 Then, I follow
>all turns provided by ATC and the GPS is set to navigation.
>But the localizer is not detected and I keep circleing around the airport.
>I do the landing and approach checklist when I am about 22 miles from the
>airport.
>Do you turn the ILS mode on manually?
>One shouldn't have to do that from what I understand.
>Many thanks for any tip,
>Christian
>
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