To Autoland or not to Autoland

[kjevans]

Edam wrote:

kjevans wrote:

Wow, in the all the time I have been using MS flight sims I have never altered the sim rate.
After reading your post I thought I would try it out.
Well watching the terrain go by is fun for about 30 seconds but michael, how do you cope with radio comms, I have never heard the ATC speaking such
gobble-de-gook. I am afraid I had to reset back to normal speed, interesting though!
Kirk

You turn off ATC until getting close to your destination, depending on your altitude. You do that by TUNING the last center after reaching altitude,
but NOT contacting them. Then you turn on the GPS and NAV buttons. The aircraft will follow the GPS route to the airport until you decide to get ATC
back by correcting your heading, turning on the HDG button and turning off the GPS and NAV button and then contacting the center normally.

The original question was about autoLAND but the discussion went off into autoPILOT.

I always use autopilot and time acceleration unless, like I said, I'm doing a short flight for sight seeing reasons. Some people say that using
acceleration is not realistic, well neither is doing a flight in real time and going out to the supermarket or mowing the lawn while the sim is running.

My main interest is take off and landing.[/quote]

Yeah, your right, the topic has wavered a bit but this is interesting to see the many ways that people use MSFS.

Anyway, they say that you learn something new each day and I have thanks to you. I probably will not be using simulation acceleration again as for me
I do lots of short hop flights and tend to pick routes with new to see each time if at all possible.
I didn't think about turning of the ATC as a couple of times when I have forgotten to press the pause button for a toilet break and then found that
coming back to the sim and finding that my IFR flight had been cancelled, I hadn't dared to mess with the ATC.

Many thanks for your response.

Kirk..,