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(Taken from email to sim pilot having trouble setting up approaches with FSFS) I think I can see what part of the problem is and it relates to the setting of the NAV1 OBS.  Navigation radio 1 (NAV1) has 2 elements which need to be set up for FSFS to correctly evaluate a landing. ILS landing a) Set NAV1 radio to the frequency of the ILS for your destination runway. b) Set NAV1 OBS (omni-bearing selector) to the exact heading of your destination runway. NonILS landing a) Set NAV1 radio so that it is not receiving any signal at all. b) Set NAV1 OBS (omni-bearing selector) to the exact heading of your destination runway. In addition, when performing a landing without ILS, you must land at one of the runways in the NonILS folder of FSFS and you must load a flight plan to that runway into FSFS (regardless of loading a flight plan into FS itself).  Now - from what you have described, I don't think that the pilot is setting the NAV1 OBS (omni-bearing selector) to the heading of the destination runway. In for example the Cessna 172, the NAV1 OBS is a dial around the NAV1 needles (GS & LOC) display which can be rotated through 360 degrees. It is essential that this is set to the exact heading of the runway and not rounded off. If the runway in question has a heading of 253 degrees then the NAV1 OBS must be set to 253 degrees.
The current setting of this instrument can be revealed by pressing Ctrl-Shift-D ('D' for 'Data') while connected to FSFS, or you can just look very closely at the display. I believe setting this correctly will result in your landings being correctly interpreted and evaluated.  ( ... and you know what - it DID!  )
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The instructor always ggives me zeros for landings and tells me that I'm no where near the center line even when I land right on the line. I did setup a non-ILS file and it is getting loaded. I'm flying an Air Creation Trike in FSX so I don't even have a NAV radio. What to do?
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| >> The instructor always ggives me zeros for landings and tells me that I'm no where near the center line even when I land right on the line. I did setup a non-ILS file and it is getting loaded. I'm flying an Air Creation Trike in FSX so I don't even have a NAV radio. What to do? I can only imagine it may be related to the data in the file name of the non-ILS file. Can you send us the file in question? If you have 2 for the airfield, please send us both. Just email them to info@fsflyingschool.com or send them in a reply to this post to this forum. Also - which exact version of FS are you using?
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