Glowing Heat - B-58 "Hustler" - ILS Problems

[petenoak]

I've just started flying with the Glowingheat B-58 "Hustler." I'm getting better at handling this a/c on Takeoffs, Climbs and in Cruise mode.

 

I've tried using suggest tweaks but they did not fix my landing problems.

 

I've been able to land this plane, but only manually. When I try to use the AP the plane drifts back and forth, left then right of the ILS radial dialed in on the Nav radio. It seems like the AP has trouble keeping this heavy plane centered and keeps over correcting.

 

My impression is that the plane is too massive for the AP to be able to correct the plane when it is the right or left of ILS radial. The AP makes an adjustment and then the plane moves to line up but then passes through the correct direction and overshoots the correct radial. By the time the AP can get the plane to respond it has passed too far past the radial. Then the AP tries to correct again and the process repeats itself. The a/c just cycles back and forth, never settling in on the correct heading.

 

I'm not sure what I may be doing wrong. I wonder if I'm going too slow on Approach? Or too fast?

 

 

peter in oakland, california

[pvarn]

This is commonly caused by trying to fly an ILS approach in a large plane starting too close to the runway.

Another problem is some planes have poorly coded ILS/GS settings in the aircraft.cfg file.

If this is the case, correcting these to match the dynamics of the aircraft can be challenging.

 

1) Make sure your approach starts at the speed documented for the aircraft at the current weight with correct flaps settings and fly straight and level approximately 4000 ft above the aircraft AGL (or at the charted ILS approach altitude for the airport.)

2) Start your approach 20 miles out. Only slow single.turboprop engine planes can capture and hold an ILS within the apprx 13 mile Glide Slope capture point. At the start of the approach, make sure your angle to the approach course is small.

 

-Pv-

[petenoak]

Thank you, Pv, for this. It worked the first time I tried it! I guess I had been lining up for the runway just a little too late.

 

thanks again!

 

pete

 

 

 

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This is commonly caused by trying to fly an ILS approach in a large plane starting too close to the runway.

Another problem is some planes have poorly coded ILS/GS settings in the aircraft.cfg file.

If this is the case, correcting these to match the dynamics of the aircraft can be challenging.

 

1) Make sure your approach starts at the speed documented for the aircraft at the current weight with correct flaps settings and fly straight and level approximately 4000 ft above the aircraft AGL (or at the charted ILS approach altitude for the airport.)

2) Start your approach 20 miles out. Only slow single.turboprop engine planes can capture and hold an ILS within the apprx 13 mile Glide Slope capture point. At the start of the approach, make sure your angle to the approach course is small.

 

-Pv-