![]() In some cases, Blue Angels, foreign customers the F-18s are equipped with non-naval navigation equipment. Interoperability with civilian navaids is deemed of little value. USN F-18s get by with TACAN and ICLS (and ACLS) because that is necessary and sufficient for their needs. Tactical fighters have limited space and other resources to accommodate equipment. ![]() This was before the AIDS legend was next to the top left HI button. what the VOR,ILS and International DME steering options looked like in an RAAF FA18A. Its an Old image from the last century as evidenced by the map. perhaps tied with the nationality you select in FMB. It would be a great "option" to have in DCS. The USN old manual ILS tuning panel on the left console is still strangely present (though non functional) on those Hornets fitted with VOR/ILS. as is the desired radial for VOR course line steering. ILS is almost the same as for the USN ILS system with the addition of marker beacon cueing that appears in the HUD as you pass each marker. ![]() Steering for VOR is the same as for TACAN. System is capable of back course approaches as well. Colonise the option you want then allows VOR or ILS freq (which are VHF) to be entered. The UFC then displays VOR and ILS in the 2 top option windows. You press the same UFC ILS function button. International DME is automatically paired by selection of VOR or ILS frequency. If you want VOR you box VOR if you want ILS you box ILS. Once selected other options of VOR or ILS are presented. On those Hornets equipped VOR or ILS is selected using the AIDS push button on the HI top left button. Any, in the know folks out there who might have insight into this decision?Īustralian,Canadian,Spanish,Swiss,Kuwaiti, Blue Angles and perhaps a few others have VOR and ILS installed replacing the USN ILS system. They must of had some operational logic in mind when they made that decision. Surely, for a $70 million aircraft another $5000 wouldn't make that much of a difference. The civilian controller vectored him to intercept the ILS localizer and he had to declare, "unable." The civilian controller did a great job of talking him down the glideslope safely but it would have been so much easier if the Hornet were equipped with a VOR system, an ILS system, and a transponder for that matter. I watched a YouTube video of an F18 pilot declaring a fuel emergency in IMC and asking ATC for vectors to the nearest airport. Seems that even during war it would be nice to be able to navigate to world wide available VOR stations and land IFR at any commercial airport. No doubt a lot of training missions are flown over land and to civilian airports, and an ILS system is always nice to have in IMC. In real life is there some reason the US Navy has decided not to put a functional VOR system and ILS landing system in the F18 Hornet. ![]()
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