Runway Advise

[petrsurf]

HI is it possible to program fcom for info before approach which runway is for landing ? Cheers petr

[Travis]

Petr,

So you'd like to know which runway is "the active" before you start your approach to destination? I don't think that information is easily accessible from MSFS, although there are a few utilities that make "informed guesses" and those guesses are dependant on the ATC in use (MSFS ATC, or a 3rd party).

If this is what you're looking for, the best way is the real way - tune to ATIS (40-60nm range) and listen to the announcement -- or if there is no ATIS you can tune to Tower or CTAF and listen to the radio traffic. And if there's no ATIS nor Tower and if CTAF is quiet... the airport is yours to land upon as you wish.

[Lane]

Guys,
I fly Fs9 most of time, ATC is tracking my flight with radar. Like when I approach INDY they switch me to
INDY APP. Control Then about 30 tp 40 miles out I can contact INDY Twr.on the `~ Key Key to left of 1.
Good Tip Travis about the ATIS Freq. I have a set of old Low Alt US Books that have all the airports in the US
and Airport maps and ATC Freq's Listed. I use them a lot.
Hope this mite help.
Lane

[afy46]

Good advice guys,

Also, you can find the ATIS infomation from "Map View" by opening the airport. All the assigned frequencies for that particular airport will be listed.
If FSCaptain assigns an airport, just go to it or find it by zooming into the destination airport in Map View and get the assigned ATIS for large or sometines AWOS for smaller airports. Either write the frequency down, or tune it into one of the standby com frequencies, before you commit to the flight.
To some it up, you don't need to fly a flight plan, it will still work. You can also get the ILS frequencies from the GPS once you know what runway is in use. It takes a abit of work up front, before you fly, but it saves pausing the flight when you're close to the destination then bringing up Map View.

As Travis said, usually at 60nm to 40nm from the destination airport you'll be able to hear the weather information and the (active) runway in use.

Fred

[petrsurf]

Cheers guys , what I meant more realism I know you can go and find it in the map ,but I don't think in real world captain or Fo has laptop just to zoom in to find atis frequency . Before I start flight I gather all info for flight and just simply no pause unless emergence . More over if fcom was coded to give you length on runway and all frequencies that would be awesome. Cheers anyway love this game never back to FSP

[Travis]

Petr,

In the real world, many pilots would note the frequencies they expect to use (plus extras) before they started up. Next time, give yourself an extra 5-10 minutes before you take off to look up the wx frequency for not only your destination, but of any alternate airports that you might divert to. While you're at it, note the runway configurations.

If you don't like using the Garmin, there are other fine MSFS addons who act as database, moving map, chart manager. And if none of them suit your taste, then why not manage your own chart collection? Before GPSes, tablet pcs, and PDAs were found everywhere, pilots bought and kept their own paper chart collections. It was a very expensive and time-consuming practice.

Many countries have online charts that cover most airports we can find in MSFS. (Although with the sims' age, there may be discrepancies. ) But if notes aren't necessary, you don't even need to use paper - just find an online resource that covers the area you're next headed to and have the charts ready to pull up in a browser.

Lane has a low-altitude enroute chartbook that would be useful if a significant unplanned diversion became necessary.

[ysfsim]

i am not sure, but I think in real life the pilots can use the acars to find out the active runway in advance.