How do planes land in bad weather.?

Question

in fsx i can never find the runway in low visabitliy so i turn the ILS freq for that runwayy into the NAV1 radio butt it never alligns to the runway??

What does real world pilots do?

Answer 1

pilots are trained to land an aircraft in weather conditions like yours...but if the weather is too bad they will have go to another airport where it is safe to land

Answer 2

All these references to "OBS" in answering ILS questions. In glass cockpits at least, it's actually called a "Course Selector", regardless of your nav source. Haven't turned an OBS k**b in years. The questioner might also find this post useful:

Please, could you first improve your grammar and spelling perhaps? (Asked by another YA participant)

Answer 3

Don't know about the civilian sector, but the military has a PAR, Precision Approach RADAR that they use for aircraft guidance, along with ILS.

Answer 4

with their wheels touching the ground i hope or your feckud

Answer 5

they wait out storms or they, simply, have to land

Answer 6

That is what real planes do. Im guessing you dont know how to use a CDI/HSI. Make sure you have the right frequency and make sure the OBS is set to the runway heading. If you dont know how to fly a localizer/GS then you are out of luck, i wont explain it on the internet.

Check your spelling and grammar, it sucks.

Answer 7

I think the reason you are having problems is that your simulator differs from reality in two important ways.

First, you do not have an approach plate. As a result, you are missing a lot of details, like what the initial approach fix is, the course to the final approach fix, and the target altitudes. You are also missing the final heading.

Second, you are not getting vectors to the localizer. This makes following the approach plate indispensable.

You need to pre-plan a set of fixes and altitudes that will result in your flying across the localizer, and you need to know what heading to turn to in order to follow the localizer.

Answer 8

Instruments,  Control approach intsructions, knowlege, experience, and fear... all bring it down in the right place, safely...

Answer 9

they circle look for a good spot and hold on

Answer 10

actually that depends buddy, i  u have done your home work properly then most probably there should not be any problem except some too bad weather condition ..  in next saulty do pre planning of your flight in every possible way clear your doubts with your colleague's ... and one thing you will find this easy after some expe. till then enjoy ....

Answer 11

That depends a lot of what plane you are flying.  Skill and expirience is the best answer.  This is a VERY challenging thing to do.

For most bigger planes (Cooperate or Commercial), the pilot will rely heavily on GPS.  There is a crucial altitude where the pilot will decide whether or not the landing is possible based on whether or not they can see the runway yet.  Many cooperate jets have what is called an "Enhanced Vision System."  This is a high powered infrared camera that can "see through"  light to medium fog.  Runways (as they retain heat) and airport lighting (as they are naturally hot) will light up especially bright on EVS systems.  To land when not using GPS or EVS, pilots do rely on the ILS frequencies.  I am not an expert on these as I do not yet have an instrument rating and have only done one ILS approach (with an instructor), but in order to use the ILS frequencies and beacons you need to be able to read and use ILS approach charts.  In brief, they tell you how long to follow the frequency and when to break off an how to break off in order to hit the runway.

If you are not an actual instrument rated pilot, then do not feel bad that you can not pull off an instrument landing on FSX.  It is very difficult to do and requires a great deal of expirience and training to do in real life.  If you do want to do this "easily" on FSX, I would suggest using the GPS if the plane has it.

Answer 12

Fly REAL airplanes...

Answer 13

When you tune your Nav to an ILS/LOC freq the OBS has no function because there is only one radial (well two if you count the backcourse) coming out of it, usually pretty close to the runway heading. If your close to the runway, you would have to be almost directly in line with the runway centerline for the needle to be centered. An ILS/LOC is alot more sensitive than a VOR.

Answer 14

In poor visibility, pilots use the ILS of the aircraft and airport to guide themselves to the runway (usually via the autopilot).  In extremely poor visibility, they let the onboard computer land the aircraft (autoland).  Autoland uses the ILS and autopilot, too, but it is capable of guiding the aircraft all the way down to landing, even in zero visibility.  If visibility is very poor and the destination airport doesn't have autoland capability, the pilots will divert to an airport with better weather.

Answer 15

very carefully !