lonewulf47 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Strange enough it seems that to-date nobody has noticed that the LOC for RWY 18 at KTVL Lake Tahoe is completely out of bounds. First of all the location of the LOC antenna is wrong. IRL it is not - as usually can be expected - beyond the opposite end of the approach RWY and furthermore the inbound course is 171° - see the official DTPP - http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/dtpp/search/results/?cycle=1513&ident=ktvl 171° The position of the LOC antenna can even be seen on the photorealistic ground picture slightly left of centerline, approx. 600 yards ahead of the beginning of RWY 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w6kd Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Indeed, the localizer at KTVL is actually an LDA--a localizer beam that is not aligned with the rwy centerline. The existing navaid in the ORBX v1.10 AFCAD is the stock (incorrect) localizer that is aligned with the rwy centerline, making the approach unflyable as published. Honestly, I'm surprised that ORBX missed this important detail. What needs to be done is a dummy rwy needs to be created off the north end of the actual rwy with a 171 deg rwy heading and a localizer on 108.9, and the stock loc needs disabled. That would make the LDA approaches flyable as they exist in the r/w. Regards Bob Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w6kd Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Actually, at least in P3D, it's an easy fix with the ADE editor: open up ..\ORBX\FTX_NA\FTX_NA_KTVL\Scenery\ORBX_KTVL_APX.bgl with ADE, double-click on the localizer beam, click "set by drag" (should now show "set manual") and set latitude to 38.910034797, longitude to -119.990004949, and heading to 187.6. Then drag the LOC DME box to the sharp end of the relocated loc feather, save, compile, rename the original bgl to .off, and place the modded bgl file(s) you created into the folder. That moves the localizer to the proper offset course for the published LDA approaches. Regards Bob Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Thanks Bob and I am sure that ADE will do the same job for FSX. I will lock the topic following your very useful answer, this will not prevent the developer from replying if he sees the topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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