Cessna 208 ILS Approach HOW TO in under 15 Minutes - Microsoft Flight Simulator 

Agreed. It is enjoyable to watch, but if he isn't showing me how to get set up, I end up completely lost. However, Squirrel isn't alone in incomplete tutorials (or maybe assuming we all know more than we do).

True. This is the 15 minute crash course to be fair :D

I came here specifically to learn all about ILS so would absolutely love to learn this. Say...tutorial #11? :D

Yes, ILS for dummies, please. Starting with: where do you get these approach plates?

Couldn’t agree more. 3 years - no reply.

Lost me at Lima Romeo Sierra Foxtrot.

lol

The G1000 is a highly capable but very complex system. It does take a lot of study to become proficient enough to stay ahead of the plane.

That where the VS (Vertical Speed) indications come in handy. If you need to drop from 14000 feet to 5000, that's a descent of 9000 feet. How far are you from where you need to be there in minutes? 10 minutes? Okay, you need to keep that vertical speed indicator at about 900 feet per minute. How far out that is depends on how fast you're flying etc, but most places without mucking big mountains in the way are pretty forgiving of getting to your approach altitude a little early, so starting with plenty of margin is usually okay.

me as well it continue's to climb thru the assigned altitude even though armed and set properly, very frustrating

If I use rudder at all by accident while in AP the plane spins out of control

In MSFS 2020 you cannot do the whole STAR with analog gauges because it lacks the DME instrument. You can just perform the final ILS. With the G1000 172, you can absolutely do everything, except RNAV approaches are bugged.

Isn't he a real life pilot too though?

hahaha i doubt it after many thousands of hours in the van ?? hahahahahah

@@yienmaster04 Yes, I think he is

sorry found them

He means he's showing you how to do it in under 15 minutes of video time as opposed to making a 40 minute video. He doesn't mean you have 15 minutes before landing to get everything ready.

@@jedsithor I know that, has nothing to do with how much time I have before touch down. I just need training slower but I can see in the comments that most wants this so its only me.

the one that approach gives you, oh you mean in the sim ?? what ever you want to practice

What did you think he was focused on?

goal ski retry sure that’s a setting which increases performance. Go into settings, general (I think, not in front of the sim) and there is a setting to switch other plans from real to generic.

Jonathan Young cheers, i’ll have a look! seeing major carriers flying g36’s is driving me nuts!

Jonathan Young i tried all settings. most commercial flights (live traffic) are still in the G36.

Not all fields have them.

You can for US charts for free or worldwide on Navigraph. They have a monthly fee, but you can get worldwide charts by Jeppesen. It's the best thing since sliced bread.

Skyvector has them. All free.

@@frontcentermusician Except SkyVector does not have foreign charts. Having charts and airplane position on the iPad overlayed on a chart is a great feature for no more than what Navigraph costs.

Daniel Winter DME = Distance Measuring Equipment. It measures the distance your airplane is from a particular VOR. Some VORs do not have that capability.

If the i5 is a few years or less you will be ok. 5+ year old i5s are barely able to pull off 30fps. You need a decent graphics card too. Honestly, a PC costing less than $800-1000 is going to by iffy for playing MSFS. It's one of the most demanding PC games in many years.

I’m a beginner too, but I am coming along. I have found it useful to start in the 152 and learn VOR navigation the old way. That gives you a good grounding in some of this stuff. Then you can load up the 172 and start to get to know the basics of using the autopilot in the G1000. Plenty of videos on both of these things on YT. That really helps understand what he’s talking about in this much more advanced video, but don’t jump in here first.

@@jonathanyoung6397 im totally confused on how to intercept and ILS, I don't even know what end of the runway I should be at. Bewildering

I wouldn’t start with ILS yet, just get a normal landing down. Talk to ATC and listen to which runway they tell you to land at. The number of the runway aligns with its heading (so runway 27 is at a heading of 270 degrees when approaching it). They’ll also tell you how to approach the runway, so “base”, “downwind” etc. This takes a bit of practice before you get it, so I’d start there. Look up tutorials on airport patterns. One step at a time, so head straight for instrument flying!

@@jonathanyoung6397 thanks, ill take that onboard

So smooth and precise!

it's like he didn't even land, just became one with the airport. Passengers were like, did we land? i didn't feel nothing, are you sure we are not just floating?

RNAV is super broken in MFS2020 hopefully they fix it. VOR/DME works though

@@kennyp1021 Sorry what do u mean by RNAV being broken?

Kamilohbk The sensitivity never changes from ENR. You don’t get TERM, APR, LNAV/VNAV, LPV etc sensitivity. So you can be pretty far off centerline without noticing any deflection on your CDI. Getting to the IAF is a mess. It draws some random arc to it and it doesn’t know anything about about procedure turns. And good luck trying to get it to sequence to the next waypoint. Glidepath isn’t right at all. And for all approaches, the missed approach procedure isn’t included

@@kennyp1021 That reminds me of something. Sometimes i get a full IFR route from the sim's inbuilt flight planner, but after 2 steps it stops following the route for some reason and keep X course. Is it related to that?

Kamilohbk not sure I’ve seen that in the sim. Does it happen when you’re using a departure procedure?

Same here

Welcome back, I too have returned to MSFS after about 15 years away from it. Am exited to get back into it, and hopefully they get all the little bugs fixes in the near future.

You can do things the hard way or the wrong way lol

@@therocinante3443 Don't forget the third option, the easy way which also works

@@briboy2009 The one you also forgot to mention is the correct way. lolol

@@SoothesMySoul20 Many thanks for pointing that out. I obviously need more sleep as I had not even noticed that certain videos were prefixed with "Tutorial #" and this one was not. I shall slap my face with a wet kipper and wait patiently in anticipation :-)

The previous ILS video in the TBM 930 was a very easy way to do ILS, you should check that one out. To be honest, it's done the same way as the Cessna 152, except in the 152 you have to manually follow the indicators, whereas here you just let the auto-pilot do everything. Also, huge issue, the Cessna 152 doesn't have a DME, so it's kinda hard to follow a procedure when you don't know your distance to the target. The DME is the instrument that gives you a distance on the radio navaids you are connected to, like VOR beacon or LOC (ILS) beacons. With the Cessna 152 in the game, you can roughly follow an ILS descent manually, but you cannot follow the procedure of an approach chart. You will have to upgrade to the 172 for that. Another clarification. He didn't highlight the hardest way to do an ILS landing. He highlighted a harder way to approach to intercept the ILS. ILS landing is always done the same way, but how you get to the ILS is different. To clarify, landing in IFR is done in two steps : 1- Follow a specific route around the airport that guides you to a specific point where you intercept the ILS (or whatever you use to descend), this is called the STAR and is what is shown in those charts documents. 2- Actually perform the final descent (like the ILS). If you just want to practice the ILS descent, you can just roughly fly towards the axis of the airport, with good enough distance and keeping a given altitude (in this example here it's 3000ft I believe ?). Then as you intercept the ILS, you can just follow the indicators of the ILS. You don't need to follow the whole STAR to just practice ILS approach.

@@POolBacK thank you for those useful comments. I have already started using the 172 as Squirrel has used it for a few of the tutorials and found it to be as easy to fly as the 152. What put me off was the three screens in the 208 as I would rather master the 172 before venturing any further up the ladder. I must have missed the ILS video in a TBM 930 so I shall follow your advice and take a look at that. Thanks again,

@@BoxersAreTheBest don't be put off by the 3 screens. The 208 has 3 screens, but the right most screen is a copy of the left most screen. It's only used for co-pilot, just don't pay attention to it. For all intent and purposes, the 208 uses actually only two screen and is almost the same system as the 172, with minimal variation. But yeah, in general, I would recommend focusing on the 172 to do this. Just input the frequency of the ILS as NAV1, make sure to change your PFD to VOR 1. Fly to intercept the axis of the runway at a certain distance. Hold 3000 altitude for now, and as you pick up the signal, align yourself on the LOC (or press the NAV button on the autopilot to do it automatically) and then you can presse the APR button on the autopilot to automatically descend following the glide slope. Really easy.