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Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 11 Aug 2021, 16:27
by TSR2
Hi Chaps,

On the off chance any of you have the above. Do you know if there are instructions for the AP? I've gone through the docs in the Carenado folder and there doesn't seem to be any reference to the Autopilot. I've had a look on Avsim and on their support section, but I can't see anything relevant.

Also, cannot for love nor money get it to intercept the ILS. The radios are set to the correct frequency as the ADF is pointing correctly, but it just doesn't seem to see the beam for ILS.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 11 Aug 2021, 19:20
by cstorey
Ben : I hope I'm not teaching my grandmother etc , but the ADF is a medium frequency aid ( presumably in your case for the outer marker ) and has nothing to do with the ILS frequency which will lie in the VHF range of 108Mhz to 117.975Mhz

Re: Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 11 Aug 2021, 19:41
by TSR2
Hi Chris, yep, got that, wrong terminology. The ADF is fine, 420.0 kHz and the IlS is on 109.9 MHz on NAV1

Re: Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 12 Aug 2021, 05:35
by ajb
Hi Ben,

I have the 360 running in P3D and love it. Like all Carendo stuff there is a lack of useful manuals but the autopilot controls are quite simple. That said I have a Saitek MCP so tend to control the autopilot using that device. I have not yet encountered any problems intercepting the ILS but I do tend to fly a close course to the beam to make sure it finds it.

My biggest problem with the 360 is slowing it down. I usually resort to long, gentle descents then levelling off and letting speed bleed off until I can deploy flaps and undercarriage. I messed around with thrust and prop levers and nothing seems to slow it down; it's very slippery even if it doesn't look like it should be.

Andy

Re: Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 12 Aug 2021, 09:43
by TSR2
Cheers Andy,

It’s a nightmare to slow down, and get on the deck. But it’s very pretty! 😁

I think the issue is to to with the Garmin unit. The real aircraft didn’t have this and was a retro fit in later years. It seems you can’t use the radios to set Nav 1 and Nav2 unless you do it in the Garmin. And the Nav radios in the Garmin seem to operated independently of the actual radios. For example if I set NAV1 to 109.90, and fly directly into the ILS beam, absolutely nothing happens… I’m guessing because the Garmin needs to be set too?

Re: Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 19 Aug 2021, 08:49
by ggi
It could possibly be the NAV/GPS switch is set to GPS? On some aircraft this isn't obvious, so try assigning a keyboard command to switch NAV/GPS and see if that works?
Gary

Re: Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 19 Aug 2021, 12:32
by TSR2
Cheers Gary, I'll give that a go.

I found I had bought (at some point years ago) the VirutalCol Shorts pack. The VC is pretty basic compared to the Carenado ones, but it works! and the aircraft actually performs more like a 360 (in that it slows down). You also get the 360, 330, and Skyvan in the pack with lots of great repaints.

Re: Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 31 Aug 2021, 01:09
by airboatr
Hi Ben,
Any chance of editing the config file and change the drag coefficient parameters..... n'stuff. :worried: *-)

Re: Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 31 Aug 2021, 16:41
by Scorpius
Hi Ben,

I have the same setup so here goes:

From the S360 cockpit it's shift F3 then select AP and GNS530. I put these on another monitor.

Select VLOC 1 frquency by pressing bottom LH knob (Comms or VLOC) and adjust display to read airport ILS. Press V button next to frequency readout to set VOR radios to ILS you have just set.

If you are using the local airport you should see the ident, heading and DME.

Off you go!

It is a sod to fly the approach, try to set the flaps before descent as there is bags of lift from them and the AP cannot keep up. I use throttle and prop pitch to control the speed.

Good luck!

Nev

Re: Carenado S360 / S330 ILS / AP

Posted: 25 Nov 2021, 21:59
by Motormouse
TSR2 wrote:
12 Aug 2021, 09:43
Cheers Andy,

It’s a nightmare to slow down, and get on the deck. But it’s very pretty! 😁

I think the issue is to to with the Garmin unit. The real aircraft didn’t have this and was a retro fit in later years. It seems you can’t use the radios to set Nav 1 and Nav2 unless you do it in the Garmin. And the Nav radios in the Garmin seem to operated independently of the actual radios. For example if I set NAV1 to 109.90, and fly directly into the ILS beam, absolutely nothing happens… I’m guessing because the Garmin needs to be set too?
Hmm, I only ever saw one 360 with a garmin box, and I'm not sure even then that the auto tune function was enabled, that was a 300 with 67R engines and 6 bladed props, that one didn't want to land either

IIRC in the end we made adjustments to blade angle settings via beta follow-up

Ttfn

Pete