Good day,

I'm not quite sure if this is the correct forum for this topic, but I need some help with creating a new ILS.

I assume this can still be done in the data section of the FMGS. If so, is there perhaps a manual, or user guide, that I can download?

All my efforts thus far have come to a standstill at the point of entering the ELEV data, which consistently gives a message of "NOT ALLOWED". I cannot figure what information is required in this part of the screen.

Is there some kind soul who can help me over this hurdle?

I will be very grateful.

An ILS is part of the Navdatabase and the scenery and can not be "created" in the FMGS.

I wasn't going to pursue this matter, as the reply was not helpful. However, since you have emailed me about it, I can advise that I have worked out for myself, after many hours of attempts, that one can, in fact, create an ILS as a pilot's navaid in the DATA section of the MCDU of the Aerosoft professional aircraft. I have made two and they both work. They do not feature in the Navdatabase automatically, but they remain available as navaids for the duration of the flightsim session. I have yet to learn how to save them permanently, but to make them semi-permanent, at least, I had to create new entries in the navaid texts of the navdatabase. These entries will, of course, be overwritten when the the navdatabase is updated. The FMGS responds to them when called by inserting either the ILS frequency, or the navaid IDENT in the RADNAV of the MCDU. The process is complicated, as one has first to create a pilot's runway in order make the ILS. It took a while to learn that the coordinates in the FMGS screens must be entered with the DDM system, not in decimal degrees, and how the "fig of merit" works, but with perseverance up the learning curve, an ILS can be created.

It is a great pity that a step by step user guide was not created to help the uninitiated, like myself, as it would have saved me many hours of trial and error working it all out.

4 hours ago, quentcor said:

It is a great pity

TBH, this is not a pity. But when users start to edit those files on their own, in most cases it is the root cause of many problems, where people start to complain against Aerosoft, why this and that is not working. That is the reason why it is not officially supported and will never be supported.

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