Bit of a nooby question about inbound on landing....

[Spirit X]

I've been playing for almost a month and starting to feel more comfortable with things but there's one thing I've been wondering about:

 

When you call 'Inbound' and ATC tells you something like, "..turn 290 for 27", how do you know when you've flown 27 miles from that point?

 

I guess maybe there are different ways of doing it depending on the aircraft you're in, but is there a useful generic tip that I'm unaware of that could make this easier?

 

For some reason I often feel like using the F10 map and getting a ruler out is kind of cheating and I like to do as much in-cockpit as possible, so I was wondering what techniques people use to judge these distances after calling inbound.

[razo+r]

1) When you are directly above the airfield, you know you've flown 27 miles as said by ATC.

 

2) With constant speed, you can use this formula: s=v*t

[MAXsenna]

Oh, I thought the inbound command was to vector you to the approach point, from where you start your landing, to catch ILS etc. Am I missing something?

 

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[Skip73]

If you're talking about inbound to the Carrier, I believe your distance is to the 10NM IP for initiating the approach.

 

Check your TACAN distance, if it's the same as the distance stated by ATC, there's your answer. Just follow TACAN.

 

From the Carrier, fly the heading until you're about 10NM TACAN on the inbound side of the ship, then turn inbound.

[Revs]

Tune to the tacan, adjust the course needle to ranway heading then fly to intercept that course before the desired distance.

 

Much like F5 navigation tutorial.

[Bouli306]

Tune to the tacan, adjust the course needle to ranway heading then fly to intercept that course before the desired distance.

 

Much like F5 navigation tutorial.

 

Or set a way-/steerpoint on the center of the base

[Revs]

Or set a way-/steerpoint on the center of the base

 

Key point to my suggestion is to be able to fly to a point or intercept a course other than a location of tacan or a base. That is specially helpful when your runway is moving.

[Kang]

Oh, I thought the inbound command was to vector you to the approach point, from where you start your landing, to catch ILS etc. Am I missing something?

 

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You are not missing anything. That is more or less what it is supposed to do and I'm rather sure it used to do so in older versions, but nowadays it vectors to the runway itself.

[MAXsenna]

You are not missing anything. That is more or less what it is supposed to do and I'm rather sure it used to do so in older versions, but nowadays it vectors to the runway itself.

Just tested this (2.5.5 stable). If I'm close to the airport it clearly vectors me away to a point away from it. I'm sure it does in 2.5.6 OB as well.

Will, I need to check that later.

 

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[LuckyFromArma]

I've been playing for almost a month and starting to feel more comfortable with things but there's one thing I've been wondering about:

 

When you call 'Inbound' and ATC tells you something like, "..turn 290 for 27", how do you know when you've flown 27 miles from that point?

 

If you want to figure out exactly how long it will take you to fly the 27 miles you can use an E6B flight computer(it has instructions on it).

 

Anyway, if you follow ATC' instructions(turn to and fly the heading they give you at pattern altitude) once you're abeam of the ADF, ATC will contact you and clear you for Visual Approach.

 

At that point you're at the airfield and you can easily pick out and enter the traffic pattern from visual reference(check the airfield chart for pattern info). Enter the pattern, turn base to final, once on final you can request landing and ATC will clear you for landing on the active runway.

 

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.:pilotfly:

[jasonbirder]

When you call 'Inbound' and ATC tells you something like, "..turn 290 for 27", how do you know when you've flown 27 miles from that point?

 

 

Depending on your platform...you can create a markpoint (easy done in the US jets Av8/A10/FA18/F16) at your current position and then reference your position in relation to that markpoint