Working Title has enabled VNAV approaches in the G1000 NXi, but in the process, ILS approaches have somehow been lost. I’ve tried several times to fly ILS approaches in the Beech G36 since the G1000 NXi became the default Garmin in the G36 and numerous other aircraft in MSFS 2020 with Sim Update 5, without success. I’m not doing anything differently than I did with the plain-vanilla G1000. Before takeoff, I enter the destination ILS runway’s LOC frequency into NAV1 and make it the active frequency; I go to the MFD’s PROC screen to set up the ILS approach and load it for activation later. After takeoff, I engage the autopilot (for an IFR flight plan). All works as it should until I get to the ILS approach’s final-fix intersection (the one with the maltese cross and the little lightning bolt).
Then things go haywire with the G1000 NXi. This is when I mouse-click the CDI softkey in the PFD to switch from GPS to the localizer. Pre-Garmin NXi, doing this would replace the magenta arrow with a green localizer arrow that would be oriented straight-up, 6 o’clock to 12 o’clock–just like the magenta GPS it replaced–on the final approach heading to the target runway. Pre-NXi, I would hit the autopilot’s APR button at this point, the AP would capture the glideslope, and the plane would follow it in. But in the new Working Title G1000 NXi, clicking the CDI key brings up a locator arrow pointing 90 degrees to the left of the runway heading – every time. The only way to land the plane after this is to disengage the autopilot and hand-fly it the rest of the way.
Working Title’s G3000 NXi is still apparently a work in progress. I hope WT works this kink out of the NXi soon.