Hi there,
as far as I know with all the Asobo models it is possible to pratice landings by simply selecting the destination airport and approach in the world map planner.
By doing so, when you start the flight the aircraft is already at the right distance and the right altitude to capture the glide slope by activating the Approach.
This is not possible with the A310 Asobo/Inibuilds, the A32NX and the ATR42/72
I wonder if there is a trick, to do something similar with the ATR, other than entering a short flight plan in the MCDU ?
Any suggestion would be very welcome, thanks
BTW if there is a discussion already addressing this same question, that I have not found, please just link it here.
The biggest issue I’ve seen, is the assumption it will start you at the right altitude to start the approach. Mostly, I’ve seen that you will start well above the altitude to start the approach, Unless you go into the “navlog” box on the WM and manually set the altitude you want the flight to start at, and that’s not always a guarantee it will start exactly where you set it. (P.S. you may have to go back into the WM after you’ve set the altitude to adjust your time again, or sometimes it picks a different time). But mostly, it will start you a lot closer to the right altitude for the approach than if you don’t edit the altitude in the navlog box. I usually set up a practice approach a little farther out from the arrival runway to make sure I’ve got time to descend as needed.
Hopefully that helps you get some approaches set up to practice.
Regards
There’s Location Manager for doing Landing/TO practice/ (Disclosure: developer)
LM is more general than FSIPanel, and you’ll have to program the FMC yourself for whatever aircraft if that’s part of your scenario but it’s designed for rapid iteration learning, though you can run longer distance scenarios as well, so flexible too.
Thanks to both, but frankly speaking I am not looking for a payware solution.
I will keep on flying the STAR (taking off and returning to the same airport via the STAR), which all in all it is not so bad …I can practice both Takeoff and Landing this way :-))
