Approach Hold issues

couldve added a username to that entry. heres one i generally use when im on the net: Nero89. Ive also since learnt that as a signoff sum of u guys put what planes u fly down the bottom of a message, so heres mine.

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Virgin Blue 737-700
Qantas 'Yananyi' 737-800
British Airways 747-400
Atlas Air 747-400

Three things: make sure when you're activating the approach mode, you've dialed in the ILS freqency for that runway, and switched your plane back from GPS to NAV. Without that it's not going to work.

Next make sure that when you're making that final turn your speed is 180kts or slower. The faster you're going the wider you're going to make that turn.

Third, don't activate it 1 or two miles out of the localizer and expect it to make the turn it time. Give it some room to do it.

You can't approach the run in course to the runway at a 70-90 degree angle and expect the plane to turn on a dime. Every plane has a turning radius and takes up space to make a turn. 30-45 degrees for intercept will get it done.

First of all i usually start the turn about 10nm out. secondly i only make 30-40 degree turns. Thirdly, of course i tune in the ILS!! Still it is not very accurate and swings from one side to the other quite severely

I don't think that it should turn you onto course with complete accuracy, and you will have to do some of the work yourself. But i am no expert on this topic. 😀

The ILS will swing the closer that you get. When you are getting closer to the runway, you should be using rudder inputs to move the needle.