I'm pretty bad at radio/navigation but could someone maybe explain if this is a real life feature or a game playability thing?

[fergrim]

I was finishing up a mission in one of the campaigns, and trying to find the best nearest airfield.

 

Anyway long story short, for all I could tell, the JF-17 not only spontaneously created a set of waypoints guiding me in for a landing, but it did so at an airfield that's listed as having no ILS.

However as far as I could tell, the entire experience seemed identical to the ILS tutorial.

Can the JF-17 generate its own set of reasonable landing pattern waypoints for whatever airfield it might be landing at?

[Blinky.ben]

4 hours ago, fergrim said:

I was finishing up a mission in one of the campaigns, and trying to find the best nearest airfield.

 

Anyway long story short, for all I could tell, the JF-17 not only spontaneously created a set of waypoints guiding me in for a landing, but it did so at an airfield that's listed as having no ILS.

However as far as I could tell, the entire experience seemed identical to the ILS tutorial.

Can the JF-17 generate its own set of reasonable landing pattern waypoints for whatever airfield it might be landing at?

This is due to the Jeff having a data cartridge. A real life mission would have a series of airfield already preloaded during the planning process. In this case for DCS the JF automatically loads up 8-9 airfields If I remember correctly they are airfields closest to the waypoints. I think the bingo waypoint is closest to the last waypoint but I’m not sure.
 

again as for the ILS civilian and military airfields often have GPS waypoints that can act as if it’s working on ILS but it’s really just the system working from input waypoints and altitudes and seeing where you are relative to these points and where you should be. In fact a lot of airfields are now not continuing to maintain ILS systems due to other cheaper GPS based alternatives.