MSFS: ILS Approach - Cessna 172 + G1000 - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

hey this is kip and in this video we're gonna fly an ils approach in the cessna 172 skyhawk with the g1000 in microsoft flight simulator 2020. if you're unfamiliar with how an ils works i highly recommend watching my other video linked here first where i fly it using the cessna 172 that has a garmin 530 and 430. however you can just watch the first half of that video and then return here to see me flying the approach using the garmin g1000 in this video so i'm just going to get this started up and then i'll go ahead and first take a best guess at which runway we might be landing at and therefore which ils we might be on and we'll program that into the garmin g1000 right here first before we depart and if atc assigns us a different approach once we get within the range of las vegas then we'll go ahead and switch over to the newly assigned runway so as usual i have skyvector up to look at the charts and we can see our departure down here at kingman in the bottom right and i just have a direct two route uh here straight to las vegas and if you point over las vegas you can see a little tool tip part of that tool tip is the current metard this one is 26 minutes old that says and we look at the first line uh it says las vegas and then it says the zulu time of the report and then it says the wind so it says 0 1 0 at 1 1 knots so 11 knots at 0 1 0. so that means that if we were facing 0 1 0 we would have a headwind directly coming at us and in general you take off and land into the wind so any runway at the las vegas airport that is closer to a heading of zero one zero is probably the runway that's active and if we take a look at the airport diagram for mccarran international in las vegas you can see down here in the bottom left there is a one left and one right runway so that means that those runways are roughly at 0 1 0 heading so those are perfectly aligned with it where the winds are from and most likely active now it is possible they'll assign us any of the other runways um especially in the simulator you never know what you're gonna get pretty much so especially with air traffic control so we just need to be aware that they may give us something else and we'll need to adjust to land a different runway okay so we're all started up here at parking i'm going to go ahead and set our flight plan up so i spawned in right at parking with no flight plan or anything loaded in so everything we're doing is directly with the g1000 and we'll file our flight plan with air traffic control as well so i'm gonna go ahead and set our departure airport first which is of course our current airport kigm and then we just add las vegas for the second wave point k-l-a-s okay and hit enter so because this um airport is untowered we can't file our flight plan so we'll have to do it once we're in the air and once we tune into an approach controller away from this airport next i'm going to hit the procedures button down here proc and then choose an approach and it looks like the ils is only for runway one left not for one right so i'm gonna go ahead and choose one left and hit enter and there's only one transition waypoint available so we'll choose that one uh this is the waypoint that is the beginning of the approach procedure so it's the waypoint you kind of start the approach on and in this case there's only one waypoint but generally you'll go ahead and pick the one that is from the direction that you're coming from so one of the way points might be towards the east or the west and you would pick the one that's most appropriate for your course keeping in mind that when air traffic control actually assigns you an approach they may change that transition point so you have to keep your ears open for that when you're talking to atc and if you needed to change it you would come back here into the procedures menu and then load the new approach whatever it is on the transition that you're assigned so i'm going to go ahead and hit enter to just choose cruddy because it's the only available transition point and then when i highlight load i'll hit enter and that'll add it to our flight plan here lastly i'm going to go over to the pfd here on the left side and click the cdi button down here to change to the gps route for navigation instead of using nav1 and nav2 radios we're going to use the gps first but because the ils is radio based we will end up changing this back to use nav one on our approach so now what we can do is go ahead and file our flight plan i'm going to go ahead and tune into los angeles center right here and here you can see request ifr clearance for instrument flight plan so because we have at least a departure and an arrival airport in the gps flight plan that'll give us this option here so we can go ahead and click this to request our ifr clearance and they'll go ahead and give us an altitude and a squawk code all right so we read back the clearance cessna november 2-0 kilo india papa cleared to las vegas airport as filed squawk6764 so it said as filed it didn't say anything about our oh there we so we're gonna do that turn left heading two niner five resume on navigation climb and maintain one zero thousand six hundred feet cessna kilo india it's really said uh expect ils 26 left to printo cleared to pre-note so we're going to acknowledge the approach they assigned us so i was wrong it's not one left it's 2 6 left so we need 2 6 left ils via prino so i'm going to go ahead back to select approach here hit enter move up to this approach field and choose 2 6 left there's 2 6 left enter and preno is set as the transition so now i'll scroll down to the bottom and then hit load and that will replace our previous approach now you can see printo is the next waypoint on the list so it's going to take us directly to preno and we can see that right here at the top of the pfd so we're going directly to preno 58 miles until we get there and they also gave us instructions to climb to 10 600 feet so we're gonna do that now what's interesting is um he told us to turn to heading 295 but then he said to resume our own navigation and then he cleared us directly to prino so the last thing he told us was cleared toprino so we can go back to navigation mode now that we are clear direct to printo and we have prino set up in our gps flight plan you could see that we were actually almost on course already towards prino so the reason he had us go to 295 was to start us towards the course we needed to be on to go to prino so now that i enabled autopilot just turning us back getting us onto that course directly on that magenta line there so what else i'm going to do to prepare for the 2 6 left approach is to set up the ils frequency in my navigation 1 radio so the g1000 i'm going to do that by going to the waypoint mode so i'm going to hit fpl to close the flight plan now you can see down here on the bottom there's map waypoint aux and nearest if you turn the big knob that'll actually go between those different screens so i'm going to go ahead and turn the large knob until we get over to waypoint so i'm just going to dial in las vegas here so k-l-a-s okay so there's las vegas i hit enter and now we get all this information about that waypoint so we have runways and then at the bottom here we have frequencies so if i turn the cursor back on and scroll all the way down we can scroll through that list of frequencies and find the frequency for the ils 2 6 left and there it is so now that i've highlighted that you can see it's flashing if i hit enter it will put it up here in the standby field of the navigation 1 radio so there it is 111.5 now i'm going to hit this button right here to activate it now i can go ahead and toggle the cursor off and then scroll back to the left to get back to the map screen here so now that that's activated on the nav one frequency i'm going to go ahead and turn on a bearing down here i'm going to do that by clicking pfd right here and then you can see these options bearing one and bearing two that lets us choose another type of data to see for navigation so i'm going to go ahead and click it once you can see down here it says nav one no data so we know we have the right frequency tuned in so right now we're just not in range of that frequency and that ils frequency represents the localizer and the localizer will give us our horizontal guidance and then once we get close enough we'll get our vertical guidance which is what the glide slope does but we only need to know that one frequency so we're already tuned in and we're ready for it all right so i've gone ahead and brought up the approach plate for the ils runway 26 left at mccarran and so we can see the localizer frequency up here 111.5 and then here we can see preno this is the waypoint that we're heading to and you can see we need to be at 8 000 feet when we get to printo so because microsoft flight simulator is atc can be a little iffy and has some bugs mattering what approach and runway you're flying i'm just going to make sure that we're at 8 000 there um the air traffic controller should give us the instruction to descend to 8000 but if they do not then we need to know that we need to be at eight thousand feet when we get to primo okay so they just told us to descend and maintain one zero thousand which is good and maintained we're gonna go ahead and descend and maintain eight thousand feet and there's the call for eight thousand so looks like uh just perfect perfect timing there that i was just discussing that we need to make sure that they accurately tell us to go down to 8 000 feet so they just did that so we're going ahead and uh starting our descent here for 8 000 feet we can uh expect that after preno at 8 000 feet we'll have to go down to 6 500 by larry 4 900 at shand and then 3 800 at relin but when we get to reland uh we should have the glide slope uh in range which you can see right there and using the autopilot and the glide soap we'll just go ahead and follow that down for our precision approach right there all right so we just leveled off here at 8 000 feet which was the last instruction we got something else i'm going to do in preparation for uh the localizer is just turning on our nav one radio so it can be audible and we do that in the g1000 just by clicking this nav one button right here so now you can see that little triangle above it that indicates that it's now audible so when we get in range of the localizer and it's tuned into that frequency we'll hear a series of morse code beeps coming through and we'll be able to hear those now that this nav one is turned on and that's just another way to know when you're in range instead of just relying on looking at the g1000 display we'll be able to actually just hear it right they're passing us off to approach one los angeles center one two zero decimal four fife for cessna kilo india papa all right so we're going to go ahead and tune to approach and contact them approach cessna november 2-0 kilo india 8 000 feet approach continue as planned on the altimeter so i'm gonna go ahead and update that here with the barrow button two niner niner niner i'm gonna go ahead and also update that down here on our backup instruments and now we can hear the morse code pattern coming in on the nav1 radio so that's confirmation we're in range now we can see right here the code for the localizer irle just as we expect and down here as well that information is shown because we enabled that on that bearing one option so i can go ahead and turn nav one off if we went ahead and changed our navigation source from gps to use the localizer it would turn us to the left immediately to try to intercept that line right there but instead we need to cross over printo first and then the gps with the autopilot will turn us to the left towards larry and at that point since we're going to be pretty much in a straight shot we can switch over to use the localizer for our navigation right at that moment all right so air traffic control just said descendant maintains six thousand five hundred that's what we were expecting kilo india go ahead and do that and you can see we're 1.4 miles from primo so they're letting us start our descent right now start there and now once we finish this left-hand turn uh that's coming up right in a moment we're gonna go ahead and switch over to use navigation you can see right here that the magenta gps course and the blue localizer of course right here match up so that means it's fine now for us to go ahead and switch we're not going to have any uh drastic uh heading changes when we switch this so i'm going to go ahead and hit the cdi button right here you can see now it says localizer one because we are tuned to the localizer and you can see now the autopilot's following that to line us up you can also see right here that we have the glide slope shown and the glide slope is our vertical guidance you can see that it's above us which means that if we just straightened out right now then the glide slope would come down towards us so if we um slowed our descent we would basically catch up to the glide slope now we're going to do is use the autopilot to follow that and all we have to do to tell the autopilot to follow the glide slope is to turn on approach mode and we just do that on the g1000 by hitting this apr button right here now remember it's already following the localizer for our horizontal guidance because it's a nav mode but when you turn on approach mode you're telling it to also follow the vertical guidance and in this case it's the clyde slope that's provided by the ils so the one part is the localizer for horizontal the second part is the glide slope right here so i go ahead and hit approach and you can see gs shows up here now they said there's a traffic alert all right does cena maintain 4900 we're gonna do that less than one mile now microsoft flight sim atc doesn't really separate the traffic at all so i bet there's someone like right on top of us [Laughter] yeah i think i have the traffic when you landed a really busy a busy airport like this and there's a lot of uh traffic sequenced in it just doesn't separate you from the live traffic um anyway that's just just how it is we're gonna just go ahead and ignore it and sometimes because of that as well air traffic control will give you a go around over and over again so anyway what we're waiting for now is just to capture the glide slope so because the glide slopes above us all i'm gonna do is slow our descent so the glide slope catches up to us so remember it's above us like a laser beam shooting over our head if we uh from the ground right so if we slow down it'll slowly catch up to the middle as soon as it gets to the middle because we've armed approach mode with the autopilot that's why it says gs right here it's ready for the glide slope as soon as this green diamond gets to the middle it'll automatically intercept and capture the glide slope and follow it automatically for us so it'll pitch down for us to keep our descent going um and you'll see that happen in just a second here i'm gonna go ahead and slow us down even more so minus 200 just hitting a hotkey i have set up uh to change my vertical speed so i'm just slowing our ascent so so it's about to capture there it goes so glideslope just captured it's green now so you can see that we are on the localizer and we're on the glide slope with the autopilot so it's holding us on our horizontal uh alignment with the runway as well as our it's handling our pitch to get our descent uh going here so all we have to do now uh just like what we do with autopilot usually is make sure we are managing our throttle so i'm gonna go ahead and pull us back a bit i should have been a bit slower already but i'm gonna pull this back down into flap range if you don't want to use autopilot and you want to hand fly this you'll look at the green diamonds here if it's above the center then you know you need to add some power to slow your descent and if it's below then you need to you know you need to cut some power so pull back on your throttle to increase your rate of descent to catch back up to it so it's a little game you play uh you know increasing and decreasing your throttle to keep that diamond in the middle and then at the same time with the horizontal guidance down here if you're hand flying it this line in the middle would be broken and to the left or right to tell you whether you needed to fly more towards the south side or more towards the north side of your heading indicator here to catch up to it so if it's right you turn towards the right or towards the north side and if it's left you would turn towards the south side to re-intercept that line so it's solid and something to keep in mind again just with microsoft flight simulator is that in you know really any sim not every single ils approach is programmed perfectly microsoft flight simulator seems to have a problem with displaced thresholds runway thresholds so for example some runways have a lot of concrete before the actual threshold of the runway starts and that concrete that extended area sometimes the ils is programmed to bring you in where that concrete starts instead of where the actual threshold of the runway starts that you know there's so many airports in the simulator that not all of them will be perfect um another indicator too is if we look at the papi lights right here we can see that we're at the correct descent we have two white and two red so that means that we're not too high or too low they say that red means dead so if there's four reds we know we're too low so you need to add power it's basically the same way the diamond here on the glideslope works so if this diamond was above us that would mean that we're too low so we need to be higher we need to go up to the diamond and in that case the papi lights would show three red or four red mattering how much lower we are than we're supposed to be so you can use those things all in conjunction uh during the approach to make sure that you're at the right descent of course when you have a visual of the runway like we do right now you can obviously see if you're too high or too low visually that's it's more obvious so at this distance though i'm just keeping my eyes on the papi lights just to make sure it's keeping us going uh at the right descent and i'm also going to put in a second notch of flaps here since we're getting closer now when we're 5 we can disconnect the autopilot whenever just because we have a visual the runway it's not necessarily going to be so precise that it's going to take us all the way down to the runway and you know minimums exist because you have to have a visual of where you're landing so what we can do is if we were in cloud coverage all the way down until our minimum altitude then suddenly broke out of the clouds and we could see it then i would disengage autopilot as soon as i had a visual of the runway uh to hand fly in the landing so we can see where the populates i'm just gonna let us it bring us down pretty far okay see we're at three red now so that's worrying me a little bit because we're lower than we should be and it doesn't look like the glide slope is bringing us up higher so i'm going to go ahead and disconnect the autopilot right now and i'm going to keep my eye on those papi lights so to know if we're too high or too low so you can see that we have um two of those lights right now so we're in good shape putting the last notch of flaps in so we have three whites so that means we're a little too high so i pulled a little throttle so remember when you're coming into a landing your pitch is for speed so i'm pitching up and down to keep us around that 65 knots and throttle is for altitude so i'm pulling back on the throttle right now because we have three whites so i want to see two white and two red i'm also just keeping pointed straight at that before that touchdown point like where the numbers are can't actually see the numbers so we're still at 65 knots pulling back on the throttle and i'm just pulling the nose up now slow us down pull the throttle to idle just holding the nose up as long as i can until those back wheels touch and then i'll slowly bring the nose down oh and then roll to the left all right so we made it here successfully to las vegas using the ils for our approach hope you guys found this video useful as usual please leave any comments and suggestions below thanks so much for watching and have fun flying

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Length: 23min 41sec (1421 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 01 2021