How to Land with X Plane's Garmin 530 ~ Tutorial 

+Ramon Arriaza Hi Ramon, Thanks, keep it simple has always been my philosophy, I have a hard time following some people so I try to keep it short and sweet. Thanks for watching. Blessings, skip

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Hi Chris, Glad to hear it helped and thanks for watching. Nice to hear from folks around the world, greeting from California USA :-) Blessings, skip

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Willem P Congratulation!! Now you need to create your own flight plan and fly it :-) you will feel even better Capt. Willem. Blessings, Skipskovski (where did you get that name?)

WEH Videos Just made it upski........lol.

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Hi Larissa, Thanks a lot, glad you are learning and having fun. Happy flying! Blessings, skip

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Hi gyhembree, Welcome to X Plane! The transition can be a little confusing but well worth the effort. Glad the videos helped. Happy Flying. Blessings, skip

Hi Alejandro, Glad the video was useful :-). I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you are asking here could you explain a bit more please, thanks? Blessings, skip

@@WEHVideos Hi again. Sorry for my bad English. The questions was about the different GPS approach modes and about LNAV +V mode. I was looking for information and now I understand more about this issue. Don't worry I think it's solved. Thanks a lot for your videos and for your kind answer. www.thinkaviation.net/difference-between-lpv-lnav-vnav-and-lnav-minima/

Hi Alejandro de la Vega, Glad to hear you got it figured out!! I must admit I do not use autopilot or GPS when flying, I enjoy flying manually. I do not have any real life flying using the Garmin or FMC only fly manually in a Cessna 172N so I'm not much help in this area. Your English is fine I didn't understand what you meant by LNAV+V mode :-( If there's anything else I can help you with please let me know. Blessings, skip

Hi Scott, When landing using the ILS system you use the NAV radio not the GPS. ILS aligns you down the center of the runway and it's GS will bring you down to a decision point where you take over the landing so it does take you down to the runway. The stall warning is just a warning signal created by an opening in the wing that "whistles" so to speak when the angle of attack it too great, it's doesn't do anything else, completely driven by air. skip

Hi wildgoobsid5, I don't have much experience with the G1000 so I would have to learn how to use it first and I'm in the middle of a beginners series right now. Maybe someday in the future I can get around to that. There has not been many airplanes that model the G1000 very well but I know that is changing fast so see what I can do. Glad you like the videos, hope they help. Blessings, skip

Hi rackum44, That depends on your airplane and the nav system you have. So if you have NAV1, NAV2 and GPS options you need to select GPS and make sure the Nav system is turned on and if there is ON, OFF, AUTO the AUTO must be selected for the GPS to work. You also must make sure the Glide Slope is active by selecting APP in the case of the Baron58 but it may be different depending on the airplane you are flying. Hope this helps. Blessings, skip

Hi Larissa, My weekend was pretty good, thanks for asking :-) Hope yours was good too. I got the San Francisco plate from www.airnav.com/airports. If you don't mind spending a little money you can get approach plates for all over the world here: www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUCTS/SimPlates/order.asp Have a great week and happy flying, Blessings skip

Zbyszek Masternak Hi Zbyszek, Thanks, I'll see what I can do :-)

Zbyszek Masternak Hi Zbyszek Your video is now posted, let me know if it is what you had in mind. Part 2, the landing will be up soon. Sorry it had to be made in two parts. Skip

Best Greetings from Germany, WEH,. your Videos are just : so much helpful!!!!!! Thank you. Hope all is nice @ you :)

Hi ipafritzsche, Thanks, glad the video helped! Blessings from the USA, skip

Hi Jaap Aap, Sorry I took so long to reply been doing a lot of searching on this with no definitive answer. My best guess is that its an altitude to reach before starting your missed approach procedure, notice the number comes after the runway RW28R in the flight plan. If you look at an approach plate for SFO RWY 28R, in the upper right is a missed approach procedure. The current approach plate, of 11-10-22, says climb to 4000ft then climbing left turn going to VIKYU. the plate I used for this video says climb to 600ft then to VIKYU. With that the 600ft in the approach plate I used is obsolete and the X Plane Garmin probably is outdated also, but sends you to VIKYU. So this number probably is and altitude to reach before turning to a missed approach point fix or holding pattern. Sorry that's all I could come up with that makes sense to me. Let me know if that makes sense to you or if you found an answer yourself. Thanks for watching and your really good question :-) Blessings, skip

Rafik bito Hi Rafik, Yoo need to be sure you turned on the Auto Pilot. In the Baron58 on the center console between the seats, there is a rocker switch on the far right that must be turned on, then you can select the APP or NAV button depending on what you want the AP to do. Look at the display panel above the Attitude Indicator, you should see NAV, GS, and AP lights on. This tells you the AP is on and you are navigating with the NAV radio and have captured the Glide Slope. If there are no lights on the AP is not on. Hope this helps, let me know how you make out. Blessings, skip

WEH Videos Thanks a lot Skip. I have the Autopilot on and NAV is on as well, but still the GPS does not switch between waypoints automatically. I have to do it manually by pressing Flight Plan on the GPS then Menu and choosing Activating Leg. Thank you.

Rafik Batroussy Hi Rafik, That's interesting. There is a NAV1 NAV2 GPS switch on the Baron58 in the upper left of the panel. That must be set to GPS and right above the CDI button GPS should be displayed, if it isn't hit the CDI button so GPS is displayed. Let me know if that works. Blessings, skip

Hi Larissa, Thank you :-) Sorry I'm not exactly sure what you mean by OMI indicators. Are you referring to the DTK and TRK readings at the top of the display? If so, TRK is you is the track you are on DTK is your desired track, does this help? Blessings, skip

Good day, Skip. Thank you for writing. Please let me explain to you where these O M I letters are. When you first enter the cockpit, you see the "physical" GPS device. At the very top of the device, there are some buttons like COM1, COM2, DME, etc. But to the left of said buttons, there are three letters in colors: a blue O, an orange M, and a black I over a white background. These letters are above the PILOT knob. These O M I letters send buzzes in certain circumstances, like when approaching a runway sometimes, but I can't deduce what is the meaning of such alarms. Thank you for your help, Skip, and God bless.

Hi Larissa, OH silly me, of course! OMI are markers to help pilots on ILS approach know where they are the approach. "O" is the Outer Marker and can be the FAF (Final Approach Fix) "M" is the Middle Marker indicates you have passed the "Missed Approach Point and should going around. "I" is the Inner Marker and indicates the beginning of the runway. So these are visual and audible warning indicators to help pilots when landing when visibility is bad. Blessings, skip

Great, Skip. As always I do not have enough words to thank you for your teachings with kindness and patience. Thank you very much. God bless.

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Hi Scott, What Cessna are you flying? There are three things that need to be turned on for the GPS to work. OFF.ON.AUTO must be set to AUTO. Source NAV1 NAV2 GPS set to GPS and NAV or LOC engaged. If you are landing with ILS in AutoPilot you need to turn AP off before touchdown. There is no real trick you must pay attention to Glide Slope and speed or you will have a problem. Watch your speed in the Cessna, you should be around 60kts with flaps just before the runway. Cut the power when you are sure you can make the runway and your speed should drop to 55kts, get ready for your flair by leveling off just above the runway, your speed will drop quickly and you flair just before touchdown. Too much speed in landing will cause troubles so watch your speed, if you are around 60kts when it's time to touch down your too fast and most likely you will "takeoff" some what when you try to flair instead of touching down. Landing is nothing more than a controlled stall. You should hear your stall warning come on just about touch down time. Check the PAPI lights to make sure RED is over WHITE on your approach, this insures you are on a correct glide slope. Let me know how you make out. Blessings, skip

Hi Jeremie, You can get approach plates from www.airnav.com/airports just type in your airport and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and you will find all the available approach plates. Unfortunately this is only for the United States if you want plates for different countries you can purchase a program that has just about every airport in the world. You can get that program here: www.dauntless-soft.com/products/simplates Hope this helps. Blessings, skip

Hi David, Glide Slope is the angle you approach to the runway and is around 3 degrees. If you are using ILS and keep the GS indicator centered you are on GS. There are PAPI lights and VASI lights to help you stay on GS also, these are visual aids. The PAPI lights consist of lights lined up side by side. When the two left lights are red and two right lights are white you are on GS. If three lights are red you are a little low, if all four are red you are very low. It works just the opposite with the white being too high. The VASI light system have lights "behind" each other or along the runway. As you approach the runway one set of lights will appear to be above the other. So if you are on GS you should see the red lights over the white lights or the farthest lights red, closer light white. A saying goes "Red over white your alright, red over red your dead, white over white you fly all night." Don't get too hung up on this you want to learn to "see" when you are on GS by how the runway looks as you approach so you don't rely or fixate on these visual or electronic aids. Again these are just references to help, learn to land without these and you will become a better pilot. However these lights help on runways that are slopped as on a hill. The runway will look different in these situations and you can find yourself too high or low depending on the direction of slope ether towards you or away from you. Hope this helps. Blessings, skip

+WEH Videos great stuff Skip, but do you have the website that had the page where you show the GS, the radio info, the altitude etc. that is what I am searching for. also thank you very much for explain the lights. that does help. I seen them and always wondered lol. I think in 10.50 b2 they are not working. hope it gets fixed on 10.50 b3. thanks again D.

+WEH Videos the Approach Plate. just saw it on your description. if you have an app, I can use on samsung tablet

You can go to AirNav.com/airports and enter the airport you want, look at the bottom of the page for Approach plates for the runway you want. You won't find approach plates for all airports just the larger ones with ILS in most cases. Happy Flying! skip

Yep, very cool!

Hi C Wood, I've not heard of anything like this I suggest you re-install X-Plane and see if that helps. Let me know how you make out :-) Blessings, skip

@@WEHVideos Well I did fix it. I got a suggestion from the X-Pane Forum that on the map (keystroke M) in X-Plane that I disable the ILSes. I went back into a 3 mile landing with the ILS frequency on and sure enough, there it was. It has"nt all the time. I have never experienced it before. It has been a 1st. But I lnow what to do next time

That's interesting! I've never noticed that and don't have a clue of what that means or what it does. Glad you got it fixed :-) Blessings, skip

@@WEHVideos Here's another question. I have never seen a demonstration on the use of vertical navigation which is the 3rd page on the NAV button. Guess I'm just gonna see what it does.

Hi C, I have never used AP for vertical navigation, let me know how it goes :-) Blessings, skip

Hi ezzedine_555, Sorry not sure I understand your question. If you are looking for the Approach Plate I used search the internet for "Approach Plates". Pilotfriend.com has them to download in PDF format. I've not use this website so don't know if you will find what you are looking for. If your serious about getting Approach Plates you can purchase SimPlates from: www.dauntless-soft.com/products/simplates/index.asp Here you can get Approach Plates for airports all over the world. Let me know if this is what you were looking for :-) Blessings, skip

Hi Snow Ball, You can get airport info here: www.airnav.com/airports/ and you can purchase SimPlates X here for international airport info here: www.simplates.com/ Blessings, skip

Hi Reinhard, If you are asking for this in your language I'm afraid I can't do that, sorry. Blessings, skip