I believe this is one of the best, if not the best tutorial on ILS and Tacan for BMS. In fact the concept is so clearly demonstrated that this will very useful for someone to learn about Tacan navigation in general. Thank you so very much. Excellent work.
4:35 that aha! moment when it all makes sense and i finally realize what the heading bug can be used for. also the differences between the station bearing pointer and the course arrows which i used to get mixed up all the time. thanks so much, so glad i found this...
I'm sure newer BMS players like myself will always find this information useful. I have DCS and that is amazing but they are different types of games so I love both. Again ty buddy. Good work my friend. Stay blessed.
Excellent tutorial. I need to watch it ,like, about a thousand times before I will be able to implement any of it, but really enjoyed it, thanks for taking the time to make it.
Cool & very well done video. Just a few quick notes... For those not-so-saavy with turning in well on the localizer, ideally you'll want a 20-30 degree offset (slightly early turn-in) instead of the 90 degree turn shown at 12:25. It helps to avoid overshots. Second, it's good to know/anticipate when you'll intercept the glide slope. A little math... (miles) x 300 = intercept altitude Basically, 1 mile = 300 ft. So with an approach at 3000 ft, the intercept will be expected 10 miles out.
I've read those navigation tutorials in the bms docs folder and never gotten it but at least I've half gotten it with this video. Still very hard to learn the hsi. So many different pointers and things going on. A sadist designed that dial.
Absolutely incredible tutorial. Why is it that it seems like having the knob on NAV works much better. I get it working even out to 70 miles ?. I did type the RNWY LNG/LAT into the DED as a steer point maybe thats why it can steer me on course out as far as I want ??.
ho-ly f..k. Wat een fantastische kwaliteit. Werkelijk schitterend gemaakt en uitgevoerd. Superduidelijk. Ik denk dat we voortaan geen ils lessen meer hoeven geven. Dit filmpje is wat mij betreft toch wel definitief. Met after effects bezig geweest?
Nice video and a lot of work you did put in there. I like to point out some issues you could have done better: First, you should never use more then 30° of bank while flying IFR and using the basic-T and the ILS instruments (because of no visual clues and the danger of spatial disorientation). On approach and landing you should fly an AOA of 11-13 Then, on landing in such bad weather, make your transition to visual cues only very late and aim to touchdown in the touchdown zone (like on your second approach - you said it wasn't nice - who cares - but it was the safer of the two landings). With the F16 hold 13 AOA also after touchdown until approx. 90 kts then ease the nose down. Nevertheless: almost perfect and a very (!!) good guide for instrument flying and usage of the ILS in BMS. Congratulations! - pete
How do you open your ACMI view? Looks like it's through your game files somewhere, but if that's like an Image, how do you know your position through ACMI, and Airbase position?
Would love you to train me on this as the HSI dial in Falcon has bugged me for ten years. Even watching this,my brain finds it hard to sink in. Like I said a bloody sadist invented the HSI gauge.How pilots can read all the info from that tiny dial without getting a migraine or sore eyes,is beyond me. Such a prehistoric dial.
Jellybeantiger It's not complicated once you grasp what everything is telling you. And it's extremely straight forward. BMS doesn't have a lot of in game tutorials/lessons. I suggest at least playing DCS for its training missions if your new to combat flight sims. Especially for the HSI and basic navigation system....not to mention in the DCS F-15 you can't cheat using the HSD on your Multifunction display to stay on the flight plan. (or . (By no means am I saying the Flaming Cliffs F-15 is more realistic. It's not a fully clickable cockpit like the A-10c or the BMS F-16....but the HSI is exactly the same regardless)
what an awesome video, thank you so much for that. am i right in thinking TACAN is for longer range, getting you close to the airport and situational awareness of where the runway is and ILS is for close in (less than 18miles) for getting you on the ground?
You're almost right. You have to know where the TACAN-beacon is compared to the airbase/runway. In Falcon the beacon is always next to the runway. In RL you'd make use of approach charts. These chart will tell you how to get to a runway With the help of TACAN.
Nice video.....however....in BMS when U get in 30 mile radius call ATC and U should obey their instructions. U're probabily not only one around and wanna avoid mid air collision. In RL it's not so simple and mostly U have to draw "card" (in U're mind) based on data ATC gives U on aproach.
Gregor Škof Yeah well, like a wrote here, are just the basics explained. Of course in Falcon you follow the ATC. But what if your radio is down? You can't hear the ATC. Following ATC is probably sufficient to find the runway, but if the visibility is that low you might want to switch to ILS. In RL it is certainly not that simple. But flying a RL F16 is not as simple as flying one in BMS as well. In RL you would would have approach charts, ILS charts and so on. In RL you'd also follow departure procedures. In BMS you just recieve a vector and that's it. So although your comment has a point the comparisement with RL is way off.
Cuttertje250 Like i said...nice video. U're right...for radio....especialy if U're radio is down don't make aproach like this, cause U're so caled arc aproach may result colision with someone just taking off that same runway U're trying to land on. No wonder so many plane accident's in RL this day's. :/ That's in first place only reason why i posted my however after I praised your video. Again however.....ILS and TCN are not used only in BMS or RL F-16 and maybe somebodey who is not plaing BMS accidentaly saw this video.Like U said TACAN(VOR) & ILS........it's basic air navigation....same as Fix, Holding pattern, how to enter it, speed etc :)
CornerrecordZ CornerrecordZ Nope that's the ILS frequentie. Look at 1.14 and 1.17. In the chart under runway you'll see 19. That stands for runway 190. 01 is runway heading 010.
Only thing i just noticed is that the way you approached the runway is different, quite a lot different to the actual approach chart for Seoul RWY 19 in the docs, but still worked just as well.
I agree it's a nice video, but, assuming the feathered portion of the runway at ~6:00 is the beginning of the glidescope, shouldn't the runway be depicted in the opposite direction?
Cuttertje250 I thought the feathered portion was a depiction of a glidescope for runway 19, but I now realize it's not a glidescope but a depiction of runways 01 and 36 at Seoul. Your map indicator in the upper left should also have clued me in. Thanks again. It's not just a nice video, but a great learning video.
I need to kon how to do this 100% analog, I got hit by something, I could still fly, barely. But I was unable to use any electronics, I managed to find a random air base trying to find home base.
+BADKALOS Well, even an F-16 with a HUD wouldn't qualify in the US for CAT III manual approaches. The ILS signals are more-or-less good to a CAT I decision altitude, but without multi-channel autoland or flare/rollout cues on the HUD, CAT II or greater is not authorized. It was kinda hard to tell based on the zoomed-in cockpit if the required visibility was there (approx. 1/2 mile in the air or about 3000 Runway Visual Range) or not.
You can't open the acmi-view in BMS. I've used it in the tutorial for explaining purposes, it is edited in.. So there is no way you can use it for any navigation.
