a good landing

milo · Guru

a good landing

Big Gorilla · Guru

Bit of a cross wind there on an ILS approach to Rwy 34 Right !!

milo · Guru

just a bit there mate!! had to use full flaps and speed breaks to get her to land!

make that VFR approach BG, will do ILF after a few more hundred hours in the seat..

but not much time at the moment...

-- Edited by milo on Wednesday 11th of December 2013 07:11:53 PM

Big Gorilla · Guru

I assumed an ILS approach because all heavy jets use the ILS for glide slope guidance where installed whether the weather is good or bad. Where ILS is not installed such as Regional airports in Australia, a non precision approach is used, such as VOR/DME in bad weather. Of course GPS approaches are common today. In good weather a visual approach can be used with reference to the T-Vasis.

All airlines have an approach procedure in the Flight Manual. Referred to as a stabilized approach, the Company I worked for specified the aircraft to be stabilized for landing not below 1500 feet, landing checklist completed, gear down, flaps at 10 degrees, established on the Glide Slope, airspeed + or - 5 knots. Try it on your Simulator. For an ILS approach just keep the horizontal and vertical bars on the Glide Slope indicator centralized !!

I recall one time visiting a friend, also an airline Captain.. He was sitting at his home computer playing a Microsoft flight program. Cant recall the name of it. I watched him for a while and he asked me if I wanted to try it. I said sure. So I taxi this B737 out to the runway, line up, thinking this is a piece of cake, and advanced the throttles. After advancing down the runway, waffling from side to side of the center line, I got the aircraft airborne. At around 1000 feet, the aircraft was upside down (inverted) and I crashed into a building about 1 mile from the runway end. Very embarrassing for an Airline Captain as my friend roared with laughter watching the aircraft and building go up in flames !! biggrin

milo · Guru

yeah that's how I was at the start , with the 737, but its my landings that need the work,
I'm much better with the cessna's ,but the glide scope is my big problem..
Ie i remember these turms , all red your dead, red and white your alright,
all white you'll fly all night!! are these to do with the height of the plane when landing
as I always feel i'm either too high or too low??

I also use the gps approach but hate how the atc only tells you what runway to land on ie just
so many miles out from the air port, but I hear thats similar to real life although I could be wrong

Big Gorilla · Guru

A good round out and landing is something that only comes with practice. The T-Vasis gives you angle of descent and is usually set at 3 degrees. It does the same job as the Glide Slope, one of the two components of the ILS. The other component is the Localiser, which gives you center line guidance.

The runway in use is broadcast on the ATIS, together with other relevant information such as wind direction & speed, QNH etc. Change of runway for a "Heavy" is rare, especially close in, as the Controllers are aware of the additional work load on the flight crew, more so if an ILS approach is required in bad weather conditions. (IFR)