The glide slope steering bar doesn't show up while doing ILS approaches

[d0ppler]

When I do the landing training mission for the A10, I get the glide slope steering bar (the yellow horizontal line) over the artificial horizon.

But when I try this in my own missions, I can't for the love of god get this to work.

I set the ILS frequency according to the runway (and make sure I'm landing in the direction there's an ILS). Then I call inbound to the ATC, head the direction asked, turn in on approach, sets the HSI course to runway heading, and sets ILS as homing mode on the NMSP.

 

What am I missing? All I see is the Localizer (as long as ADI is set to ABLE). No matter how steep or shallow my approach is, there's no horizontal yellow line over my artificial horizon

Edited April 22, 2020 by d0ppler

[A10Yoda]

R-r-r-r-r-adar alt-i-meter...?

 

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[randomTOTEN]

Post a track?

[Snakedoc]

in DCS the ILS signal is tied with the active runway which is determined by the wind direction.

 

make sure in the mission editor you've got some headwind set up for the intended runway with ILS ;)

 

 

same problem reported on another 3d:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=226800

[d0ppler]

Now it worked. I'm not sure why though, because now I was just supposed to fly it and save the track so I could post it here, but now the glide slope motherf** appeared on the artifical horizon.

The mission was set so it had headwind the "correct" way all along, as well as the radar altimeter was also on all along (startup from runway).

 

Anyways, thanks for your replies!

[Mfezi]

Make sure the ADI steering bars are not stowed. I think (at least in 2.5.6 Open Beta), the default for a cold start is "stowed".

 

 

It is on the Navigation Mode Select Panel on the central dash, just to the left of the EGI button. From the manual:

 

 

10. Pitch and Roll Bar Switch. The switch labeled PTR enables you to display or stow the pitch and roll steering bars on the ADI and the course warning flag. Setting this switch to ABLE enables them to be shown and setting the switch to STOW disables them unless TISL or FM homing are active.

[Diesel_Thunder]

That STOW/ABLE switch threw me for a while too. I ended up assigning that the = key on my keyboard.

 

It is good to practice without the bars occasionally and use the raw data. You look at the HSI for your horizontal positioning with it's course deviation indicator, and the glide slope indication on the left side of the ADI.