Go on Ian....

[Techy111]

Go on Ian....show us those landing piccies.....you know you want to......

Tony

[speedbird591]

Tony. Shut it!!!!

Hey Jim! You sneaky little devil! I hadn't realised you had a place up at Lake Hood floatplane base - right next to Anchorage International :o
But we found you!



Ian

[forthbridge]

Damn! Busted! You've found my secret base!
http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-p ... 102636.jpg

:flying:

[petermcleland]

You've obviously not been up near Russell Fjord Ian

Oooh - that sounds intriguing I've been a bit busy this afternoon. I wasn't happy that Juneau has an ILS with no glide slope. I suppose it's possible that it hasn't in real life but it makes a difficult approach even harder. So I fired up Afcad and added one while no-one was looking - much better now!

Ian,

Juneau should have an offset ILS with glideslope but some people have had difficulty tuning it...Have a look at this thread:-

http://forums.fsaddon.eu/viewtopic.php? ... 2521e4ba3d

[speedbird591]

Thanks, Peter. I'd used Juneau a few times in the past just with the default scenery. The ILS was fine on the advertised frequency but without a glide slope. When I tried it in Glacier Bay it is exactly the same. Check my cockpit view above. I have a feeling that this may mirror the real life ILS. As the beam appears to end at the point where one begins to turn towards the runway, the glide slope would bring you in too low and the high terrain on the approach might get in the way! At Kai Tak, the ILS beam leads to imaginary threshold well after the (admittedly much bigger radius) turn so the glide slope is accurate for the approach.

Anyway, a quick check on PAJN in Afcad showed that the box for 'glide slope' was not ticked in the ILS properties. I ticked it and now it works fine on the advertised frequency. I've only tried it once but I'll have to keep an eye on it to make sure I don't fly into the ground too early!

Ian

[petermcleland]

No you were correct first time Ian...Sorry to have missled you. The ILS is LOC+DME and has NO Glidepath

[Nigel H-J]

Somebody here has a lot of explaining to do.....just downloaded Glacier Bay and got so immersed into the scenery I just forgot where I am..........where I should be............and where I'm supposed to be going :doho:



Nigel.

[speedbird591]

Actually, Nigel - you're in exalted company. The fantastic Captain James Cook, whose name the aircraft carries, sailed from New Zealand on his third voyage and ended up in Alaska! After having bits of NZ named after him, there's a Cook Inlet in Alaska and our crew hotel in Anchorage was called 'The Captain Cook'!

What an incredible man (Capt. Cook - not you ).

Ian

[nigelb]

Actually, Nigel - you're in exalted company. The fantastic Captain James Cook, whose name the aircraft carries, sailed from New Zealand on his third voyage and ended up in Alaska! After having bits of NZ named after him, there's a Cook Inlet in Alaska and our crew hotel in Anchorage was called 'The Captain Cook'!

What an incredible man (Capt. Cook - not you ).

Ian

Ian, I'll have you know that all the Nigels on this board are incredible! ;-)

Nigel²

[speedbird591]

Nigel - I have nothing but admiration for all Nigels who visit the forum. I was merely intimating that Nigel's feat in accidentally finding himself in the wrong virtual hemisphere doesn't quite compare with Captain Nigel Cook's feat of discovering and mapping huge expanses of dangerous and unknown coastlines. In a small sailing ship named er, Nigel (I think).

The exploration achievements of Nigels through the ages are well documented and place-names throughout the world reflect their intrepid sense of adventure. Mount Nigel, The Nigel Falls, The Great Nigel Fissure, Port Nigel and, not least, The Great Inland Nigel Sea. They're all there in the atlas to remind us of how much we owe to the bravery and heroism of men called Nigel. You are all incredible to a man!

I hope this helps to put the record straight ;-)

Ian

Happy Easter