Was having trouble with ILS approach. Last I remember, I thought I had it figured out but apparently not. I couldn’t do it consistently.
Recently getting back into X-Plane and ILS approach, which appears to just be a simple recipe, but it was still giving me problems.
Just followed “X-Plane 11 – Cessna 172 Autopilot-iKboVHkbnQ4” from Jason Vriends. Seemed to be a good tutorial judging from the comments. But no work for me.
Eureka! Found the solution thanks to…
“X-Plane 11 – Cessna 172 Autopilot [updated]-EHBK10PCPgc” by the same guy above which pointed out that the autopilot after 11.30 was updated to an S-Tec 55. The keyword in this title is “[updated]”. So the above video wasn’t wrong it was just using a different autopilot model. Visually this autopilot is missing the AP button the other model had. On the updated model you have to press ALT twice to engage the Glide Slope. So you need to have …
- NAV not GPS mode selected (top of console)
- Com radio tuned to correct frequency for your approach runway
- NAV and APR button on autopilot selected and ALT button pressed twice
- Wouldn’t hurt for Heading bug to be pointing close to runway
The above worked selecting 10m approach instead of starting on the runway. So I assume if you were actually flying into a airport, you would have to drop your altitude enough in order to intercept the glide slope coordinates from the radio.
So today I did it at successfully at 2 different airports.