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User currently offlineSIA_B777 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 469 posts, RR: 1
Posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 2851 times:

hi,

i got a couple of questions for you flight simers out there

1. how do you know when to start your decent? lets say i'm in a 744 at FL390...how many nm miles out of the apt do i start my decent, and at what speed?

2. is there a way to fly a GPS approach?

3. is there any way to know if your aligned w/ the runway before you come in range of the localizer?

thanks for your help in advance

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User currently offlineCrank From Canada, joined May 2001, 1556 posts, RR: 3
Reply 1, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2824 times:

1. To know when to start your descent you just have to do, if you are at FL390, is 39x3=117. You have to start your descent at 117 nm away from the airport.

2. Andrew Herd made a tutorial on how to fly different types of approaches, including the GPS one, just search through the How To's at http://www.flightsim.com/



User currently offlineSpacecadet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3249 posts, RR: 14
Reply 2, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2811 times:

How do you get the calculation of 39x3? That's assuming 3 miles per thousand feet, but at what speed and descent rate is this?

As for the third question (related to the second), you can figure out if you're basically aligned with the runway using the GPS. Just put yourself inside the cone and you're aligned. This is how I generally fly - I still haven't figured out how to use the radios properly in commercial aircraft so I end up lining myself up using the GPS.



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User currently offlineSIA_B777 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 469 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 2808 times:

what cone?

when i use GPS navigation, it just flies me to the middle of the apt, not aligning me w/ any airport

so pretty much what i want to know is how you get from the GPS line to aligning yourself w/ the runway
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