APPROACH AUTOPILOT GUIDE

Fly the ILS on autopilot, type by type.

The jet lessons start in cruise: load the approach into the FMS, descend, follow radar vectors, arm the ILS, then land or let the aircraft land itself. Every aircraft does the same job, but the buttons, colours and names differ. Pick an aircraft, then press each control on its panel in order.

Flight mode annunciator (FMA) · top of the PFD

Where you are on the approach

It won't arm or capture? Check these

All steps

GOOD TO KNOW

CHEAT SHEET

Same job, different buttons.

For flight-simulator training only. Panels are original illustrations based on the published layouts, simplified to the controls an approach needs. XLKE, I-LAK and the speeds are fictional practice data. Real procedures, limits and minimums come from the aircraft's FCOM, AFM and your operator's SOPs.