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Hello my dear Scenery Freaks XD!

I have a Presumption on the AFCAD 2.21 WYSIWYG Airport Scenery Editor Program by Lee Swordy:

The yellow Points on Taxiways called ILS Hold Short Nodes could possibly specify the Point, there you are able to call the Tower to give clearance for take off.

In his help, he speculated about the meaning of this points, but didn't find one.

What's your experience, is my presumption right? Oo???

Should we mail him or does he already know? Embarassed

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject:

juni66...

Copy and paste the section of the help file you're questioning. It would give a better understanding of exactly what you're talking about.

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject:

Are you talking about:

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:21 am Post subject: ILS Hold short

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject:

I seem to remember reading that the default distance is 75 feet from the Hold Short Line. I believe that this distance can be adjusted through AFCAD2. If you have the ATC window open to the tower freq as you taxi, you'll see choice number 3 (take off request) appear as you enter the 75 foot radius.

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject:

juni66...

IMC = Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Did you follow the suggestions given to you at the other sim site? They seemed to be logical solutions to the problems you're having. Also, it seems one of the members of that forum is the program designer of the very program you're having problems with, I can't think of a better person to get this figured out.

According to the AFCAD2 Help file:

"The radius for a hold short node is 230 feet from the edge of the RWY, not the centerline. 225 is the suggested maximum. However, this does not apply to ATC and AI as they don't use ILS hold-short nodes."

Reference the 70 foot rule:

"Another problem can occur when two or more aircraft line up at a hold-short node for departure, the aircraft at the front of the line may get clearance and proceed to take off, but the aircraft behind him may become stuck. This problem is more likely to occur with smaller aircraft. This can be prevented by placing a normal (blue) node or an ILS hold-short node just behind the hold short node. Some experimenting has shown this second node should be no more that 70 feet (21.3 m) behind the hold-short node to work with all sizes of aircraft. As a rule of thumb, just place the nodes so they touch or overlap slightly."

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