A sloppy ILS (under the "hood") Approach
1A2A's Piper Comanche has to be the single best GA aircraft I've flow thus-far in MSFS... Join me as I conclude my 150nm trek using VOR's and NDB's to my destination, and simulate a full "under the hood" landing (simulated by just keeping my view below the hood of the aircraft out of sight of visual refs)... It was a solid 7/10 attempt.
Aircraft: https://a2asimulations.com/product/accu-sim-comanche-msfs/
Airport: KSME "Lake Cumberland REGL" located in Somerset, Kentucky.
Approach: ILS or LOC DME Rwy 5
Plate: https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KSME/IAP/ILS+OR+LOC_DME+RWY+05
Notes: It's pretty awesome having both a DME (The CDX 388) for the approach from the eastern London "ISME" VOR, plus having an ILS that also includes DME. Not shown, but the DME provided by my NAV2 unit, gave me really great Situation Awareness as to when to start my course reversal turn. I know that the glide slope intercept (At RNAV HIPOD) is 7.2DME, and as long as I'm well beyond that I'm safe to start my course reversal (Again, using it on course to make sure I start before the RNAV point SITOW at 13.5 DME). A lot of ILS's do not include DME, but they sometimes back up the raw data with a VOR and a radial that does include DME... Idk, I love having the DME right on the ILS vs. trying to do the napkin math of an offset from a VORTAC that's 20-30 miles away. I had trouble keeping the centerline, as I was using the heading hold mode vs the "HI TRAK" mode that will follow my course/ils data coming in. I could have swapped to that mode to reduce the workload as I'm incredibly out of practice as I'm used to big ole' airliners just tracking the glide slope / localizer perfectly for me as I monitor. Just some thoughts :)
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