B25 Blind Landing Mission
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The ILS Object in the Single Missions/US/B25 Blind landing Mission is in the wrong place.
As it is sited if you follow the Glide path accurately you will impact the ground short of the threshold (CFIT = Controlled Flight Into Terrain).
The object needs to be a distance of about .6km upwind of the upwind end of the runway on the extended centre line to get the GS intersecting the ground a safe distance into the runway.
The airfiield in the mission has an elevation of 100ft/20M and is on level terrain. If , however, there is uneven terrain upwind of the runway then trial and error may be needed to place the ILS object or, as in R/L, an ILS approach to that runway may be impossible to build.
Runway Lights, Light Type 4 ( Bright White ) seems plenty bright enough.
The runway light switching system works realistically for WW2 type fighter fields
where all you would have would be runway edge and end lighting and possibly a couple of lead in lights. Overfly the field at 1000ft/300M and as you pass overhead request the lights on. As you go downwind the lights will come on and remain on long enough to land and roll out. You should be fairly close in to the field ( wingtip tracking the runway) ans type 4 lights are plenty bright enough for this.
The system does not work for full instrument approaches ( NDB, Lorentz,ILS).
These start 4nm or 3KM out from the field and currently you cannot request the lights at this distance.
Also it requires time to transition from instrument to visual flight successfully so you need to be able to see the lights from Decision Height ( 200ft above the field)and they have to be visible further out than that in case the aircraft is low.
For the practice mission that I have written the instrument approach/runway lights are permanently on. It would be nice to have a second method of switching them on/off say like the Tab/8/6= runway lights on eg: Tab/8/? = instrument approach Runway lights on ( Which would switch them on further out with the same off trigger for landing),
RAF_Birdseye
Last edited by RAF_Birseye; 01-09-2011 at 08:28 PM.
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