DCS A10C Navigation 1 Setting up an approach

[@DaveOReardon]

Great tip Fish, thank you. I was a bit confused when you explained the tactic using the map (drawing lines over the map to show what you meant would have been good), but it all made sense in the end!

[@killerhaircut]

Great video mate. I plan on watching them all. Cheers

[@m00shim]

These are enormously valuable. Thanks so much. Please continue making them. Would you consider and IFR Nav/ILS landing tutorial? It would be extremely helpful.

[@scheffchen]

thank you very much for your great videos, gerry!!

[@pliskinn0089]

Thanks for answering, im just getting started, solving one problem at a time. I will look a video 4.

[@draoi99]

Very good video. Very helpful.

[@TheHammer971]

Great video. Thanks

[@Chloiber]

Thank you, this helped!

[@gerryabbott]

To fly in an arc around the tcn, you do a gentle turn, to keep the bearing point 1 needle (which points to the TCN station), always on the 3 or 9 o'clock position on the HSI. And if you maintain the same distance from the TCN, then you are traveling on the the arc. When the BPN1 overlays the bearing of runway, you turn 90, and point to the TCN. You might want to hop forward to the video on the HSI, then come back to this one.

[@commandosolo2009]

Hey fish, its noc, does the pilot body appear in 1.0.8??? Great vid btw.

[@Jellybeantiger]

Watching it again.Still confused.How do you fly in an arc? How do you KNOW WHEN to turn in?

[@ty8012]

can you do a video on the different steer points and what they are for?

[@pliskinn0089]

Setting the TCN to 31x its in theary the same that inputing 090 manualy?

[@ToshTaylor]

To fly an arc, you don't do a continuous turn. Instead, what you do is a method where you "Twist 10, Turn 10". In this method, you initially fly directly to your airport. About a mile out you will start your turn to be 90* from your SPI. From here, you twist to your final approach course 10*, wait for the CDI to center up, then twist the CDI 10* closer to your final approach course, and then turn the plane 10*. Each time, you are getting closer to your final approach course, until you intercept.

[@hachiman]

Hi Gerry. At 06.22 you decide to turn in. I'm not really sure what you are looking at that makes you chose that point in time to turn in. Needle 1 is pointing at the 3 O'Clock position so i am thinking it's maybe needle 2.Could you advise? Thanks

[@gerryabbott]

Senaki is approach 90 (E). I turn in when the BPN1 is aligned east!!!. ...…….Ok lets work backward.. imagine you had a compass in hand, looking down the runway at senaki, a couple of miles away from its end. You would be looking at a bearing of 90 (E) on the compass because that's the runway heading (north would be to your left, and south to the right). Now if also you had a HSI in your hand with the BPN1 picking up the TCN channel on that runway (not exactly but good enough, for this example). it would point in the same direction, so it would be aligned with the 'E' (6:22 on the video). This would be the same no matter how far you were from the runway end. Now imagine you were to travel south. What would happen? The compass would not move (it is in fact fixed), but the bearing to the TCN would gradually move away from E. It would move away from the direction you were travelling south). During flight what we are doing is moving from some location south of this line, until the BPN1 overlays the 'E', which tells us our aircraft is now on the correct heading to land. The only thing to do then (or a little before) is to turn the aircraft to point it to the BPN1.

[@hachiman]

Thanks Gerry. I really appreciate your reply.

[@commandosolo2009]

@gerryabbott roger on that. thanks/

[@TangodownNZ]

Could you do a walk through on the first mission CSAR. Should get lots of views, and would be helpful for new bees.

[@Jellybeantiger]

Confuse.Why did you put the pointer at 3 oclock? How do you know WHEN to put the pointer at 3 oclock?HSI confusing as all hell.I don't understand why why we need the HSI.why not use a landing procedure loadfed in based on steerpoints and just point the AC towards them.Why do we have to use the HSI to land when we use Steerpoints for everything else? PULLING HAIR OUT TRYING TO WORK OUT THE HSI.

[@gerryabbott]

The TCN must be setup for the airfield we are approaching. In this case it is 31X..

[@gerryabbott]

@commandosolo2009 Short answer NO. search for 'pilot body' on the lockon-ru forums for discussion.

[@gerryabbott]

No. TCN gives you a bearing and distance to the TCN station. It gives no information about what approach you should take to get there. The CI (course indicator) is a datum on the compass, set from the knob and only moves when you rotate the dial. It helps you to know when you are approaching or on a course. Unless you are pointing to the TCN, the bearing to it will be constantly change. Look at the Nav video 4 in the series. This guy kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXTGZ3-Vftpsf7s does a much better job explaining the landing than me.

[@RedBravo65]

It did help. Thank you.