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Every time that I enter the hold over the SEA VOR on the instrument checkride I 
fail the checkride. I am holding 3000' and rolling out right on 320 for the 
outbound leg of the hold. As soon as I roll out on 320 I bust.


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No shit brother. Same thing happened to me. Eventually I just setup my own 
flight in bad weather and flew the exact same course as the checkride. I passed 
myself. Also had problems with the ATC too not recognising changes in ircraft 
heading. When I bought this game I thought I was buying real quality. In fact I 
was buying a game that has not been finished (or tested) Cool


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this is driving me nuts! I have tried to do this for 4 hours! I need to know 
exactly what to do. This what I have been doing. Fly to SEA VOR(heading of 339 
degrees). Follow alt changes till she says to go into HOLD. I stay on course 339 
and climb to 2100 feet. I folow this couse and she never tells me to turn. After 
awhile past PARKK, she says I failed. I tried climbing to 3000 feet after told 
to HOLD and still I get failed. If I try to turn at PARKK without her saying to 
do so, it says to return to 338 course heading! From what I have read from 
GUEST, after I reach PARKK, she SHOULD say to turn LEFT and as soon as you do to 
about 160 degrees, she SHOULD say to go directly to SEA VOR, which turns out to 
be 145 degrees. He also says he changes OBS to point directly at SEA VOR(145 ?). 
Then after .4 DME to SEA VOR, I should turn LEFT to 140 degrees, fly for a 
minute and turn RIGHT to intercept 320 radial. And to then make procedure 
turns(45 degee turns?) to keep HOLD pattern. Now what am I doing wrong? Any help 
would be appreciated. Rayz Shocked


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I found this page via Google, having had some 'difficulties' with this checkride 
myself. After reading all the posts and looking into this myself, I present the 
Final Analysis of this bug(!) so that it may hopefully help others who come 
after me and have the same problem.

Now, the previous post points the right way in that one needs to look into the 
script, but the conclusion wasn't quite correct. The actual issue is thus:

Up until the point where you travel towards PARKK at 2100ft everything is fine. 
Even as you're told to climb to 3000ft and turn left to 160 all is good.

But..

As you cross 150 degrees, things go terribly wrong. The timer is reset at this 
point, but there used to be an in-between step in the script which meant for 
OBS1 to be set to 159 degrees, and it seems the idea was that you fly inbound at 
159 towards SEA VOR. Instead, for whatever reason (maybe they felt it better to 
let the user choose the approach), the script jumps to the next step. This 
checks whether the To/From Indicator is NOT "To". This would happen as you cross 
SEA VOR, but instead the OBS is (normally) still set at 339 with the OBS showing 
"From", and so the script jumps to the even next step which checks whether you 
are crossing SEA VOR on the 140 radial inbound (flying 320 degrees), for which 
you now have 5 minutes time (referring to the previous post: those '300' are 
indeed seconds). Now remember that at this very moment, you are still in a left-
turn from PARKK and just crossed a 150 degrees heading, instead of flying over 
SEA, at which point 5 minutes would be plenty of time for any maneuver to get on 
the 140 radial. Oops.

Solutions:

Probably the easiest: Set OBS1 to around 160 degrees after you're told to turn 
left and climb to 3000ft, and before you reach a heading of 150 degrees.

Permanent: Edit "Flight Simulator 9\Lessons\instr\Rating Checkride.abl" (e.g. 
drag it into Notepad), find the line with "fnSQ_ChangeState(CaseHold1Entry_2);", 
and make a new line above it saying "VHFNAV1.OBS = 159;" (no quotes). This will 
set OBS1 to 159 degrees (at the end of the left-turn) as originally intended, 
and before it checks whether you're flying towards it.

There certainly would be more elegant ways to modify the script, but this 
solution will work just fine. You'll have 5 minutes after crossing SEA VOR to 
enter the holding pattern any way you please. Just hold 3000ft and 100 knots. As 
a final tip, begin your first standard-rate turn as soon as OBS1 switches away 
from "To" when entering the holding pattern, else you'll get a message very 
quickly to bank 20 degrees, and can't pass the checkride anymore.

Have Fun!


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Hi
set NAV1 to 110.9 and OBS1 to 130

You could also set ADF to 362 for NOLLA and/or set GPS to NOLLA waypoint. This 
certainly helps to fly to NOLLA

hope this helps,
Extra


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Today I finally passed the instrument flight checkride. Very Happy

I think there's another bug.
It wasn't checked whether I had flown throgh the back course of Localizer.
When I came to near NOLLA, she said that I was cleared to land R/W 13R.
I just turned left to HDG320 immediately.
In 10 seconds, I turned left to HDG265, and took a procedure turn.
That's it!

But,there's even more to check.
When I turn to HDG 265 and the bank becomes within four degrees,
time count begins, and I have to keep the bank within 5 degrees until
time count becomes 60 seconds .
This problem can be soloved by modifying the script.(rating_checkride.abl)

I found these bugs by reading the script.
I'm not sure that these bugs happen only in Japanese version.
Sorry for my bad english.
I was helped to enter the holding pattern,so I'd like to provide
some informations about this problem.
Smile


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If I have the symantics right, you are tracking the 140 COURSE to the SEA vor. 
If you cross the SEA vor on the 140 course you are in a gray area as far as 
holding technique. If you cross on a 141 heading should be a parallel entry 
(turn left to 140, 1 min, turn in the direction of the holding pattern "left", 
reintercept the 140 radial inbound (320 COURSE). If you cross on a 139 heading 
you should teardrop (left 110, 1 min, right to roughly 320 to intercept 140 
radial inbound (320 course ). Real world, if you're conveniently aligned to 
teardrop, I would. If you've been turning to 180 you are turning away from 
holding airspace and venturing into the unknown.

If you want, draw the picture. INbound leg 320 course to SEA vor, right turn 
outbound on a 140 "no wind" heading 1 min, rt to roughly 320 to reintercept 320 
course to "140 radial inbound"


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Just passed the checkride Very Happy , and I would like to add some key hints to 
remember when flying the examen;

*When heading to Parkk, use heading 341 instead of 339, that will take you close 
enough to it, and set the OBS just after you initiate the missed approach.

*Modify the original script just like our friend above did, it will work.

*Remember to set the OBS to 320 before crossing SEA and starting the procedure 
turn (you can choose anyone, as long as it doesn't take more than 5 min).

*After giving one lap at SEA, procede 326 outbound for about 5 sec (descending 
to 2200ft), than pause the simulator and tune NAV1 to Boeing's Field ILS (110.9) 
and OBS to 130 ( Mad Yes, your are forced to set OBS for this ILS approach, and 
you need to pause because the script cheks this setting only 30 secs after SEA!)

*Procede to NOLLA using NAV2 OBS 326 and the ADF at 362.0

The following parts are the easiests, and I'm sure you won't have any problems.

If you want, there is a Message Board similar to this one with other Important 
information.

Nice flying!! Surprised