Alignment Problems!

[James Andrews]

Hi,

I am having problems with my headings. I load up PMDG 747 (FS9) into London's Heathrow airport, using UK2000 scenery. I'm dead straight on the runway, i know from personal & simulation expirence that the heading should be 272. But i'm showing 275. Also when i put my departure runway, you can tell the heading's are off due to the aircraft being facing away from the white marker showing approach path for dep/arr. My SID/STAR's are all up to date using Navigraph AIRAC cycle 909. Is there something i need to re-configure?


Cheers
James

[Norman Dean]

Hi James.

The runway in the AFD file is 269.7 deg and variation W2.1, so your compass reading should be 272 deg rounded to whole integer. Now I don't know why you are seeing 275, but is this taking into account deviation?

Norman

[Norman Dean]

Forget the above. It is some time simce I flew my 747and I forgot that you do not have to align using the compass. here is what I get lined up on 27R.

Norman

[Christopher Low]

That screenshot puzzles me, Norman. How come your runway lighting is perfectly aligned, and yet mine is way off? 

[Gary Summons]

You may be using a different AFCAD, at Heathrow runway lights are via the AFCAD file

[Christopher Low]

I am using the TRM file in the 2009 February 20 release of Heathrow Xtreme AFCAD. The runway centreline and edge lighting on 09L/27R in particular is skewed off by quite a margin. I sent Norman a handful of screenshots to illustrate my problem, so hopefully he will be able to help.

EDIT: Ah, I see that I mentioned this alignment problem back in March last year. I remain puzzled as to why nobody else has mentioned it. Surely I can't be the only person suffering from this problem?

[Norman Dean]

I will take a look Chris, but at the moment I have a system problem.

Norman

[Daniel Mangham]

Christopher, I also get a heading of 275 with Airac 1004.

[Christopher Low]

Sorry, Daniel. I kinda gatecrashed this thread with a slightly different problem