What you MUST KNOW to land in a storm - ILS Approach - G1000 Autopilot

ILS - Instrument Landing System
The ILS is an approach tool used to line the aircraft up with the runway and slowly guide it down through the clouds until it is a few hundred feet from the ground and lined up with the runway.
You can let autopilot do all the flying on the ILS if you put it into Approach mode (APR). It will not auto land and the autopilot does not control the throttle. You will need to watch your airspeed and adjust your throttle. Once you see the runway lights or the runway itself, turn autopilot off and land the aircraft.

[@1970cgb]

I’ve done ILS landings with auto pilot all the way to touch down and just used throttle to control rate of decent .

[@johnderperez]

If you made it out alive then it’s a great landing 🙌🏼

[@jakew9887]

Good Video. Thanks. Maybe one done along with showing the landing plate would be good to follow along with items like the minimums and step downs.

[@Keyboard_Flight_Academy]

Thanks Jake. I plan on doing that in the future. Maybe soon. I figured for this tutorial I would keep it as bare bones as possible. Next ILS video I'll make it real to life with plates.

[@jakew9887]

@@Keyboard_Flight_Academy Thanks!

[@AlasdairMacG]

Very helpful - thank you.
One question - for quite a bit of the video, once you had selected the Airport (by using "Nearest"), and then the Procedure (ILS - Vectors), the bottom right of the G1000 PFD kept flashing "Activate?" - surely you needed to press this to get the whole shebang working? Or is this an error/bug currently in the G1000 Nxi? Thanks in advance, Alasdair

[@Keyboard_Flight_Academy]

Great question. You should hit activate to get the entire approach loaded in the GPS. That would be correct procedure. We were only intercepting the ILS instead of doing the full procedure. Vectors skips about half of the approach and starts you directly on the ILS. So yes I should have pressed activate especially if I was doing the full procedure but ILS will still work if you dont. Vectors is a short cut that you can use IRL also. ATC directs you straight to final approach.

[@AlasdairMacG]

@@Keyboard_Flight_Academy Thank you for the speedy and full response. Duly noted! Regards, A

[@tubeslats]

Pressing “Activate” would dial in and load the localizer. You loaded it manually, so it still worked.

[@mosasa1307]

and by load the localizer that means instead of manually tuning to the freq like he did on the nav button, it auto does it for you? thanks@@tubeslats

[@bertobones7182]

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[@gotbordercollies]

Which plane are you flying in the video?

[@johnderperez]

Looks like the Beechcraft Bonanza to me.

[@mosasa1307]

I thought the cessna 208 caravan..

[@1970cgb]

That propeller animation is awful at the time of your recording .