How to Land Using ILS/How to Land in Low Visibility

In this tutorial, you will learn how to land when there is low visibility and you cannot see the runway. This situation may occur in Infinite Flight Live, and you must know what to do to get on the runway safely.


Note that ILS only exists in major airports.
First, I'll explain a bit about ILS.
The ILS stands for instrument landing system. Having support for ILS doesn't mean that the airplane can land by itself, it means that the airplane is equipped with a receiver that shows the position of the airplane in relation to the glideslope/localizer path to the runway.
For automated landings (or approach at least), the autopilot has to feature the APPR mode, which Infinite Flight does not feature at this time.
In Infinite Flight, the ILS frequencies are automatically tuned to the nearest airport, so you don't need to worry about that.

The ILS in Infinite Flight is located on the bottom centre (left right ILS) and on the right centre. (Up down ILS). It is circled and highlighted in the picture above.

• For the verticle ILS: if the arrow is pointed above the centre, you are too high. If the arrow is pointed below the centre, you are too low.
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• For the directional ILS: if the line is to the left of the centre-line, you are to the left of the runway, and vice versa.

Now I will explain how to use ILS to land in low visibility.

1. As per usual, use your flight plan to guide you approximately to the runway. You should be at around 2000-3000 feet 7 nautical miles away from the runway.
2. Continue towards the runway until the ILS shows up. Verify the ILS is for the right runway.
3. Now, use the ILS to figure out where you are in relation to the runway. Adjust your position accordingly. If you are too far to the left, turn right a couple degrees. If you are too high, increase your descent slightly.
4. When you are less than 1 mile away from the runway, the vertical ILS should be disregarded. Continue to land.

Notes:

• Near the end of the landing, the vertical ILS will go up or down dramatically. This should be disregarded
• This technique takes a lot of practice and is not easy. You can practice in solo by doing a full flight with low visibility.

Further resources:
If you are still a bit unsure, you can watch this video and watch how it is done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejn9Agj4BUI

ATC Tutorial

INFINITE FLIGHT ATC
Infinite Flight uses a Unicom ATC system, where there is no air traffic controller but aircrafts announcing there positions. To work the system, there is an atc button, which pops up with many options to send to your current frequency.
Most of this are mainly straight forward, like taxiing and taking off. Which runway are you on? There are two ways of finding out. You can zoom very in on the map and the runway number would show up, or you can look at the start of the runway, which shows the runway number also (you must turn on runway numbers in settings).
When sending a transmission, make sure you are tuned on the right frequency.
Taking off transmission options: Remaining in the pattern, north south east west, straight out.
What does remaining in the pattern mean?
It means that you will fly in the traffic pattern, which I don't see exist in Infinite Flight Live. So I would choose the other options,
Reporting position:
Final, left base, left downwind etc
Final means you are on your final approach and is about to land on a runway in the airport. This advises other aircraft to hold short and wait for you to land.
Left base, left downind etc.: Using these transmissions aren't very helpful in multiplayer. I would not use these transmissions.
Announce inbound: This means you are going to approach the airport. Tapping this option gives runway numbers. Tap on the runway you would land on. This transmission gives other aircraft your position, and allows them to determine whether to take off or hold short.
Request traffic advisories: This means you are going to approach the airport for landing, and would like to see which runways are being used.
Send traffic advisories: This tells the other inbound aircrafts which runway you are using.
Go around: This means you have missed your approach and will take off for another shot. It gives other aircrafts opportunity to take off or land.
People usually use the ATC effectively, but that could be said otherwise at the airport KHAF.

Enjoy multiplayer! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment.




REAL WORLD AVIATION ATC

Phraseology
First, you need to know the radio-alphabet and numbers.

A lpha                          1 one
B ravo                          2 two
C harlie                         3 tree
D elta                           4 four
E cho                            5 five
F oxtrot                        6 six
G olf                             7 seven
H otel                           8 eight
I ndia                             9 niner
J uliet .
K ilo
L ima
M ike
N ovember
O scar
P apa
Q uebec
R omeo
S ierra
T ango
U niform
V ictor
W hisky
X ray
Y ankee
Z ulu

Decimal/point

118.80 One-one-eight decimal eight-zero

Callsign

All aircrafts has its own callsign. It is usually in a form of: Company name, flight number.

For example, Emirates 14 Heavy, Delta 19

The Basic Form of a Transmission

Who you are sending the transmission to, who you are, and message

Eg. Sydney Tower, United 170, ready for departure, holding short of runway 16L.

Requesting Clearance

Using the basic form of a transmission, here is the messages you say to request clearance for taxi, takeoff, and landing.

Taxi: Request taxi

Eg. Emirates 19, requesting taxi to runway ___.

Departure: Ready for departure, holding short of runway.

Eg. Emirates 19, ready for departure, holding short of runway 16 right.

Takeoff: Ready for takeoff

Eg. Emirates 19, ready for takeoff on runway 16 right.

Landing: Request clearance to land on runway ___.

Eg. Emirates 19, requesting clearance to land on runway 14 left.

Flight Level

Instead of saying 35 thousand feet, the term flight level is used instead. One flight level is 100 feet. So 35000 feet is flight level 350.

Eg. Emirates 1 Super, climbing through flight level 50, going for cruise altitude flight level 100.

Replying to transmissions

It is necessary to repeat the transmission sent by ATC to acknowledge that you received their transmission and understood it properly. 

For example, ATC says: Emirates 19, climb and maintain flight level niner thousand.

You would reply: Climb and maintain flight level niner thousand, emirates one niner.

Name of airports

Instead of saying, for example, YSSY, you would say: Yankee, sierra, sierra, yankee.

I think I have covered most of the stuff for ATC. If you have any questions, or info to add to this, please leave a comment down below.

How to Execute Go Around (Missed Approach)

So, your landing is going badly, and you don't want to continue?  Then you should execute a go around. In this tutorial, I will show you how. 

Apply TO/GA power (usually 100% throttle), and retract flaps to flaps 2. (10-15 degrees). Pull up gently and start climbing. Upon a positive rate of climb, retract the landing gear. 

Continue climbing to 6000 feet, then perform a 180 degrees turn, and realign with the runway. Now continue with the landing. In some cases, it is required to circle around the airport to land on the same runway and angle. Make sure your bank dont exceed 30 degrees.

Go around checklist

Flaps...................retracted

Throttle...............climb

Landing gear.......retracted

Autopilot.............set

ATC....................notified

Landing briefing..confirmed

~Michael Chen

Site administrator, captain at Emirates Virtual Airlines