ILS and Tacan

[poschi]

Hello

i'm quite new to this awesome simulator so please forgive me my newbie questions. :=) I watched the really good youtube videos by Fish about the HSI, ILS and Tacan and got 2 question there.

 

If I turn on the Tacan and the ILS, will the CDI be overwritten by the ILS or have I completely missunderstood this?

 

Second, when I was watching Fish's videos on youtube I was also reading the manual about the HSI. He said in his videos that the bearing pointer 2 will always point to the steerpoint. But in the manual stand the exactly opposite.

Is this maybe a failure in the manual?

 

Regards

 

 

PS: Sorry for my bad english skills :P

[Xxx]

Hi, TACAN and ILS are on separate frequencies. So no conflict.

 

TACAN points to the TACAN beacon and gives the distance and the bearing (Pointer no 1). ILS has the Glideslope and Localiser on your "needles" ( ensure the needles are uncaged)

 

On my aircraft the no 2 pointer points to the waypoint and no 1 pointer to the TACAN...provided its tuned and in range;)

[poschi]

If both TCN and ILS buttons are used on the NMSP then ILS takes control of the CDI, yes. I wrote down the info to make a table. EGI and HARS master modes work the same way for HSI.

 

[TABLE=head]Select Button(s) | CDI | Range | BP#1 | BP#2

None | off | off | stowed | stowed

STPT | STPT | STPT | STPT | STPT

STPT & ILS | ILS | STPT | STPT | STPT

ANCHR | ANCHR* | ANCHR | ANCHR | STPT

TCN | TCN | TCN | TCN | STPT

ILS | ILS | 000** | stowed | STPT

TCN & ILS | ILS | TCN | TCN | STPT

[/TABLE]*CRS knob not functional, permanent CRS setting ~100°

**Bug? If no ILS-DME signal available should be flagged OFF?

 

 

For DF on UHF and/or VHF2 (FM):

 

[TABLE=head]DF Used | CDI and Range | BP#1 | BP#2

None | as normal | as normal | as normal

UHF | as normal | UHF | STPT

FM | as normal | as normal | STPT

UHF and FM | as normal | UHF | STPT

[/TABLE]

 

 

Wow thank you so much for this table. That is exactly the information that i needed :)