Hello,
I’ll try to make this a clear as possible as it was an odd experience I had tonight.
I was flying into Queenstown New Zealand. Flying the Fenix A320.
Was flying the RNAVF approach to runway 23L.
I had approach phase activated, approach button was on. The plane was centered on ND with the purple rectangle and the plane was descending along with the purple rectangle as I nor aly have done.
The runway, per flight plan, said it was 6,100 feet. As I was lined up within 5 miles I was probably WAY too high causing me to fly over the runway and turn around and try to hand land the plane.
I was confused because I was following my constraints on the flight plan as normal and also had the descending purple rectangle right with me as I approached but the runway was way farther down. Not sure why it read 6,100 feet??
This isn’t a payware airport either.
Anyone experience this or have an idea what I’m doing wrong. Appreciate any help
Just for the record Queenstown Airport is 1171’ AMSL.
That would make sense. I was kinda assuming the began my decent too late. I’m not sure why I was that far off when I was hitting constraint altitudes at each way point per the flight plan.
I’ll have to dig more into it. Thank you!
Can’t help you much with your real problem mate - I’m a low and slow guy not a bus driver and I rarely even use the AP. I do fly in and out of Queenstown a fair bit though.
The runway itself is 6,200 feet long. The elevation is 1,171 feet.
Note the descent profile from the charts. At LARAV you should be at 3,300’ which is 6NM from runway threshold. It’s a 3.2 degree Glide Path.
There is an issue with MSFS live weather pressure reporting in that part of the world. Asobo is aware of it, but we haven’t had a response on exactly what is wrong (sea level pressure, pressure at altitude, or both) and if/when it will be fixed. This affects baro nav approaches as the airplane’s indicated altitude with the “correct” QNH set will not be consistent with the airport elevation.
Appreciate the reply everyone. This answers my questions!! Thank you all! I will say it’s a very nice approach too!
