INSTRUCTIONS
Read the step-by-step instructions to land with ILS:
1. First, you need to get the ILS frequency and runway heading. Press the Alt key and go to
World > Map, zoom into the airport you'd like to land at.
- If there are green strips coming out of the airport, this airport has runways with ILS.
- If there are no green strips coming out of the airport, this airport doesn't have runways with ILS - pick a different airport.
Click on the green strip of the runway you'd like to land at or what ATC has told you to land at. Then note down the frequency (e.g. 110.90 MHz) and the heading (e.g. 261).
2. As you're coming into land with your flight plan set in at an airport, find out how to use the GPS here, ensure ATC are guiding you in for an ILS approach.
- If they're not, you can change it by clicking 'Select Another Approach' once you're close enough.
3. Bring up the GPS by pressing Shift + 3, click the 'PROC' button and click 'ENT' for 'Select Approach?'. Use the smaller dial in the bottom left to select which ILS runway you're landing at (e.g. ILS 08R) and click 'ENT'. Then select which trans you need (ATC will tell you or just choose vectors) and then click 'ENT' three times. This new line on the GPS is to roughly line up with the runway.
4. Continue to descend and reduce speed, and bring down the flaps and gear.
5. Press Shift + 2 to bring up the radio stack and key in your frequency into Nav 1 (not Com 1 or 2 - this is for communications) that you noted down earlier (e.g. 100.90). Then switch the frequency over to Active using the button in the middle.
6. Enter your course into the autopilot that you noted down earlier (e.g. 261).
7. As you get closer to the runway, and you're soon about to enter the green strip on the GPS, click the ILS button on the autopilot and switch the 'NAV/GPS' switch to GPS. Ensure the 'LOC' button is still active.
8. Now look at the Primary Flight Display. On the right hand side, next to the altitude indicator, you will see a purple/pink diamond on its side moving down. Wait until it reaches the centre white line, click the Approach Hold switch.
- If the diamond has already gone past the middle, it means you're too high, descend your altitude until it rises to the centre again.
9. Continue to reduce speed and bring down the flaps.
10. Just before you cross the runway threshold, disengage all of your autopilot. Then as you cross the threshold, reduce the throttle to idle and begin to flare.
11. Finally, slow down the aircraft as normal using spoilers, reverse thrust and brakes.
USEFUL VIDEO
How to Land with ILS with a Boeing Aircraft
This is slightly different to an Airbus.
USEFUL TIP
You can't start an ILS landing too far away - make sure you're close enough to intercept.