FS2020: Back To Basics With MSFS: Part 4 - Advanced Autopilot: ILS Approach, FLC Mode & More! 

Hi Mr Huddison . I have absorbed a great deal from your tutorials which have helped me study the NXi. Just a couple of points I've noticed on viewing the video for the second time. The rotation speed for the 172 is 55 knots, and descending, 10° of flap can be set at 110 KIAS and the rest once in the white arc. Both these are as per the POH. Just a little point as I am a self-confessed pedant, is that runway designations are for example, 'two seven' and never 'twenty seven' as it refects the magnetic heading (to the nearest ten degrees. I'm sure you already know all this but a wannabe pilot might benefit from knowing it too. I look forward to each video as I strive to stop becoming rusty. Happy flying .

Thanks for another super helpful video Huddison! One point about FLC however, you wouldn’t normally setup FLC on the ground. When you hit the FLC button the speed will be taken from the aircrafts current airspeed (which is why your FLC started at zero). Once the air / on the initial climb you can simply hit the FLC and the autopilot will automatically apply your aircrafts current airspeed and continue the climb at this speed to the altitude set using trim. During the climb you can refine the set speed if you wish using the up/down buttons, but typically you would continue to control the climb rate using throttle in much the same way as in manual flight. I know it sounds backwards but basically throttle controls your climb / descent rate and trim is used to set your speed.

Excellent series as you build through well thought out degrees of difficulty. I do want to compliment you on your camera work. The G1000 PFD and MFD screens were large, clear and bright - in other words playback is highly readable - well done. Thank you for the professionalism you bring to,your videos. You really do these time consuming productions after going to work at 6::00 AM? Holy Cow! (Midwest USA expression)

Wonderful job. Just loved the clear and slow instructions ,you are so easy to follow. Thanks

Great, transition tricked me in my ILS attemts. Now it worked fine. A perfect and clear lesson. See you in the next video.

Really great video for newbies to ILS like me, easy to follow and understand. After this one I changed planes to the Daher 930 from Gatwick to Bournemouth and using the touchscreen PFD and 'Proc' and the principles were the same and somehow it got me there. Your other videos are really helpful too, nice work! I like that you use PC and Xbox Series S too, showing that this can be available to all. I've had the Velocity One Flight for a week and you helped with that too, much appreciated! (P.S. I remember Interceptor on the Amiga too, didn't we all think that was 'state of the art'.

Thank you so very much, I have been wasting hours with the G1000 ILS functions. As you indicated, I had a number of failed attempts in Northern California. When I flew your route in England, everything worked just as expected………this iteration of the G1000 is awesome. Can’t wait for the next update.

going from lesson 1 and so on didn't realize I needed this been so long since I simmed. Thank You

Another excellent video. I’ve been trying ILS landings for weeks without success. Going to use this video to try again today.

Great video, thanks for taking the time to make it👍🏾

Super helpful. I think you are doing it exactly right by adding more complex options incrementally. I often watch your videos multiple times. Please keep them coming. Thank you (don’t envy your early morning!).

Thanks for another great video…enjoyable to watch and listen

Great video! Helped me quite a lot

“Lovely, lovely, lovely”. Been waiting on this one. Can’t wait to give it a go next time I’m off. This will make the game more enjoyable for me, big time. Thanks mate.

Finally was able to do an ILS Approach great video as usual with great explanations.

Thank you Huddison just exactly the video I've been looking for.!! I'm hoping you will do another one for the TBM930 for an ILS. You're the best.!!

As usual I found this tutorial enlightening. Thanks again.

just watched this excellent tutorial, please continue with your instruction vids, appreciate them. Thanks mate

Flying this route now at night 👍👍👍 Thanks.

Super useful video! Thank you.

Another helpful video.

Great ILS procedure. Still, do not forget to update the altimeter, either tuning the airport ATIS, which is more realistic, or key B on the keyboard.

Just tried with the FSR 500, works great, approach has changed, but that's the sim for you

Great video! Thanks

Been watching your videos. Appreciate the instructions. Thought I'd kick in a little to help you keep the site up.

Thank you for your time and great attention to detail. Really informative information. Like and Subscribed 😊

Great Video. Thanks

Something to probably pay attention on if you're adding an ILS approach inside the aircraft rather than on the world map. When you've selected your transition check to see if there's a frequency showing, if there's no frequency showing it won't work. That's what I've found anyway.

I have been practicing ad hoc ILS approaches at H International (no ILS approach entered in FP) and have found that as long as the locator has been firmly captured with the green line CDI in the centre and you fly at a constant height (assuming within ATC mandates / as on the ILS chart)you can ‘arm’ approach mode and it will capture the glideslope automatically; you don’t have to wait until the green diamond reaches the yellow altitude line. This reduces the mental load in keeping a beady eye on where the diamond is. I also noticed that, because the glideslope at H Int. is 5 degrees, it is very difficult to decend fast enough in the Cessna 172 because even with the throttle fully closed you will still have difficulty in slowing sufficiently to engage flaps so you are likel to well overshoot the numbers and land long but you could still use it to land safely in almost zero vis. (Subject to minimums of course).

Just joined your discord so I can learn even more.

Absolutely great advice

Thank you these Back to Basics videos. They are most helpful. However I am having a little difficulty in understanding the Autopilot sections. It's rather complex for a new pilot like me. If you could make a video on how to read these glass gauges that would be most helpful. I have yet to find one. 😀

Great video as always Huddison, are you planning on any basic navigation vids using say the 152 or Junkers ? Thanks again looking forward to the next one.

Thank you for another excellent video! You said that sometimes the ILS approaches don’t work in the sim - how can you tell whether a given approach will work or not? Is there some indication in the sim? Thanks!

You keep mentioning the purple line. …. In the avaition business, it’s referred to as the magenta line…. Nice job describing the use of…I learned a couple things. Keep up the good work 😎

5:00 am here in Florida tomorrow morning, it’s thanksgiving. I’ll be flying somewhere on Xbox S series, great video 👍🏻 I’ve been trying to get the velocity one but it keeps selling out, now I’m seeing them being sold online for double the price,

Great video, even with the little "adjustment to SOP". My FS2020 has a bug where I could not add the waypoint as in your video. It would display the mini popup with the ADD option, but I could not select it. I did find that if I backed out to the previous screen and then returned to the flight setup screen, all the previous runway information was still there and then I was able to add the waypoint. Must be a bug in the PC version.

by the way i have also watched video 1,2 and 3 fantastic. Thanks

Like that video too. One question Huddison While en route in the two big screens, what is the name of left display and the right one? How come you didn’t use the FLC while descending? Greetings from Boston, Lowell. :) I think MSFS will win more and more people to join it.

Lovely tutorial. I followed it for a flight from Heathrow to Luton. I did not believe that the plane was going to turn by itself in a complex approach path but it did! My first time flying only using instruments. Is there a resource or identifier for which airports have ILS? Thanks

Another Oscar Winner

Excelente.

I think you were confused at the 22:45 mark. You increase your rate of climb by increasing throttle. In FLC mode, you are using your throttle to control rate of climb. If you increase throttle, the plane will nose up in order to maintain 74 knots. You also could've used this opportunity to explain Vx, which AFAICT is the speed you were looking for. Vy give you fastest climb, but Vx give you most climb over the least distance travelled.

just wondering if you plan to do a review of the new honeycomb yoke system that is coming out?

Thanks for this - this has helped a lot. The only issue I’m having (on this and other plans) is that I don’t see the altitude to be at for each point. Not sure if I’m doing something wrong or if this is a quirk of the Xbox.

Good day sir. I was following these instructions but have hit a snag early on. I select the departure and arrival runways as shown, but when I see you do so, it automatically plots waypoints for you, but when I select the arrival runway, it just plots a straight line from the end of take off runway to the start of the landing runway. I was hoping you could give me some advice on this please? I had the same issue when trying to copy your first auto pilot video over Paris.

I’m new to msfs 2020 and your videos have been just fantastic. I do have one question. When I select ILS approach my PFD does not display the projected altitude next to the AP altitude for each waypoint. Is it a bug or I’m missing a setting?

Very helpful. Thanks. Two questions: 1. Is there a reason why you did not use the VNAV feature on the NXi instead of VS and FLC? 2. You mentioned what the "Y" means on the PFD. What are the other three (G, X & R) mean? I seem to recall the G is rotation speed. Thanks!

i do not ge get the purple line after i enter LOAD ...i am using a different layout ...new york airport and newark...you are doing a great job...thanks

Huddison, love your videos. I’ve watched this particular video at least a dozen times. Duplicated this flight on my Xbox/s countless times. I can’t get the plane to descend. I pickup the localizer, and the glide slope. The glide slope diamond comes down and keeps going down as I fly over the airport. Often times the localizer goes goofy also. I notice when I press approach, the nav goes off. Is this correct? Any idea what I could be doing wrong? I can land manually by following the localizer and glide slope but the plane will not approach without my input.

I wake up every day of the week at 5 am for work. So you seams to not using the logitech control panel any more? Do you miss it? Thank you for your very informative video!

I did it! Thank you. The only thing is the altitude for the different points didn't show up on the flight plan. Is there a secret for that? I like to set my altitude before selecting FLC or VS.

Thanks for a great video. Maybe you can help. I did this once before and all was fine. The purple altitude came up in the flight plan and on the left screen where it should next to the required altitude. Today I thought I would refresh my memory and follow along again with your video. Put everything as you describe but in the flight plan the altitude does not come up in purple but plain white and does not appear at all on the left screen. Any ideas would be welcome thanks.

Hudds … Just rewatching this excellent video 4 on ILS. Did they ever tidy up the approach routes. You used BIG I think

Greeting sir. Thanks for this video. I did learn some things unknown previously. Question: I did not see you ever activate the approach using the PROC menu on the MFD. Did I miss that or did you not perform that task? It seemed that your aircraft performed for ILS as expected even if you did not activate the approach when coming to the IAF. I did see you arm the autopilot to APP mode to capture the GS. However, I was under the impression you had to Activate the Approach at the beginning of that phase of the flight. Also, is there a reason you did not use the VNAV on the autopilot instead on manually descending the plane with the VS mode? Thanks. Inquiring minds (such as mine) want to know. 😃

Just to clarify the situation .... is the g1000NXi a flight guidance system as to opposed say a 737 FMS (Flight Management system ) ?

Hudds ... Gave it a try and while a bit all over the place managed to land safely ... Phew. Great instructions. If you did nothing with the speed would it matter for descending ? Had that C172 thing again we're flaps at 10 degrees on ground before takeoff. Tried to change to zero but went back up to 10 degrees. Only after takeoff did the flaps change to zero. Is it me or the plane. Not sure

I have been using the Flight Simulator for the past 6 months and have been trying to learn Autopilot. I have found your videos very useful. However, when using the ILS approach just before I come in to land and coming off autopilot my throttle accelerates rather than decreases my speed. Is this a bug in MSFS?

My experience two years after this video is that pressing VNAV makes the aircraft automatically descend at the optimal rate, i.e the rate designated by the magenta “V” bug. I noticed that in this video the vertical speed is set discretely at 1,000 fpm, which would be set automatically by VNAV. I know that you covered VNAV in subsequent excellent videos. I’m just wondering if VNAV was not fully developed at the time this video was made, or if there is something I’m missing that caused you to use VS on the descent.

Hi Huddison, Can you assist me? Since late yesterday my views from the cockpit in MSFS 2020 has the entire view spinning anti clockwise both inside and out, and I don't seem to be able to stop it. I'm using PC Windows 10 and Turtle Beach Velocity 1 yoke/throttle. Thanks Steve

I set up the FLC for 77 knots but when I set the AP on take off I did not gain altitude nor did I keep 77 knots. Don’t know what I missed

For some reason, my plane doesn't pick up the altitudes from the GPS. I have to manually use the Nose Up/DOwn buttons under FLC to keep up with the waypoints

Instead of google, try the AeroWeather app.

Hello, Quick question. 2 years later. Do you know if it is still worth me upgrading to 1000KNI or using the 1000 original? Asking for a friend 😊

I find it surprising that the autopilot would allow the aircraft to approach stall speed without some sort of intervention / warning?

Boooooo to a tutorial but using a mod that everybody cant get or does not wants to use