Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
I had occasion recently to fly some dme arcs inbound to a back course localizer approach in a Skyhawk with vertical navigation coupled to a two-axis autopilot. It takes some skill setting it up, but then you just sit back and watch. It must be all the more challenging and fun in that jet sim.
It's not too hard, unless something is going wrong (single engine, fires, etc). We do all our non-precision approaches with VNAV, so they are all like ILS's, but to higher mins. The CAT III autolands are fun too.