Airfield Localizer on C-47

[Spidey002]

Is there any documentation on how to use the airfield localizer on the C-47?

 

I added it to my instrument panel in the options, but unlike the autopilot, I haven’t been able to figure it out by guesswork. 

[LukeFF]

Theoretically, it should provide you with a more precise approach to your airfield when you are lined up on the runway, but it's been a while since I've tested it. 

[Calos_01]

You can go through this. It is about  different radionavigation devices, but I'd say you'll get the clue.  

 

 

 

[Spidey002]

1 minute ago, Calos_01 said:

You can go through this. It is about  different radionavigation devices, but I'd say you'll get the clue.  

 

 

 

 

I've used the Bendix, this looks (and acts) differently.

33 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

Theoretically, it should provide you with a more precise approach to your airfield when you are lined up on the runway, but it's been a while since I've tested it. 

 

Cool, but how does it work? How do I use it?

[Calos_01]

I believe that vertical needle guides you to the runway (actually to that white transmitter by the runway) in quite a similar way to the german device (at least it seems to work). Horizontal needle I don´t know what is for yet. ? 

[Spidey002]

Found this on Wikipedia. 
I’ll keep playing around with it. 
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system_localizer#:~:text=The very first,formed a cross.

The very first generation of localizer gauges had a different cockpit interface, and were not included in the artificial horizon nor any compass, but at a gauge of its own. The localizer was then represented as a dangling stick hanging from a fixed point at the top of a separate gauge, and the glide path was represented by a similar, but horizontal, dangling stick, fixed at one of the sides of the gauge. When the aircraft was located exactly at the ILS-beam (or glide path) the two sticks formed a cross.