How do I use ICLS?

[dave76]

one screen better than words.....don't see any loc and glide on hud............freq is correct

[Zarma]

Hornet ILS works only on the carrier. Not the same as the Harrier.

[Weasel]

Hello Dave76

 

As Zarma alredy stated, ICLS (Instrument Carrier Landing System) works only on the carrier. If you want to do IFR for airfields, please have a look at this video:

 

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Cheers

Weasel

[Fropa]

It's funny because the "C" stands for carrier... :P

[Kang]

So... carriers are made of cookies?

[oldpop]

IFR approaches

 

most common IFR approaches are GCA (radar) or TACAN like the attachment.

KNIP_HI_TACAN_10.pdf

[Leysard]

Maybe carrier could have been made of Cardboard instead of cookies :-)

 

[maxTRX]

Maybe carrier could have been made of Cardboard instead of cookies :-)

 

 

:lol: … nothing you can do when the "front" falls off!

[dave76]

well, i apologize...i know iCls stands for carrier, in fact with the carrier i have no problems.....i did not see ils bars when landing on an airfield.

so the C in the title was nothing more than an unwanted mistake...but i still did not see loc and glide for "normal landings"

Edited November 23, 2018 by dave76

[Ramsay]

well, i apologize...i know iCls stands for carrier, in fact with the carrier i have no problems.....i did not see ils bars when landing on an airfield.

so the C in the title was nothing more than an unwanted mistake...but i still did not see loc and glide for "normal landings"

 

ICLS uses higher radio frequencies and a narrower beam width than "normal" ILS.

 

The AN/SPN-41A Instrument Carrier Landing System is a pulse coded scanning beam (PCSB) emitter that transmits elevation and azimuth guidance signals to appropriately equipped Navy and Marine Corps aircraft.

 

The AN/SPN-41A radiates two coded microwave beams into the approach volume behind the ship.

 

The signal coverage from each beam is approximately 20-degrees to either side of centerline and 0 to 10-degrees above the horizon for a range of 50 miles

 

It is not compatible with ILS as found at Batumi, Kobuleti, etc. so you won't get localiser or glide slope indications.

 

In your first post you say

 

....don't see any loc and glide on hud............freq is correct

 

AFAIK the Hornet's AN/ARA-63 (ICLS) Channel 1 isn't adjustable in DCS but if it was, it couldn't be set to to cover a civilian ILS frequency if modelled realistically.

 

Hence why you'd use a non-precision TACAN approach in DCS and in RL (unless the airfield was equipped with a AN/TPN-22 radar or similar).

Edited November 23, 2018 by Ramsay