When you start your videos please make it clear exactly where you are flying from. Give the airport name and location FIRST. Otherwise by the time I locate your starting point, you're already in the air and I'm still trying to find the airport. I love your videos. I'm learning ILS but you move so fast. Thanks, Denver in Chicago
In the MSFS Cessna 152, on the lower control panel just to the right of the ignition key (Magneto L/R/Both/Start) there is a round button that says something like "glare shield lighting" (I don't have it in front of me right now). Anyway, you can use your mouse to turn the ring rather than click on the button and it brings on an adjustable red light that illuminates the console.
There is no hard and fast rule. If you're flying a civil aviation jet, you might be following a "Standard Approach Route" that starts 100 miles from the destination. If you're flying GA, ILS would be acquired 8 miles out at 2500ft above ground level - or anywhere below that much closer to the runway.
I beg to differ. X-Plane is massively more realistic in terms of the movement, and behaviour of the aircraft. It simulates the flow of air over the shape of the aircraft - FlightSim looks it up in a table. For the most part it's a good approximation, but when faced with cross-winds, yaw, and so on - FS falls down.
