Thanks guys, really useful advice. I'm sure I'll get practiced at it but useful to have some rules of thumb initially. At least I control the environment in the simulator which gives me a big advantage! And I'm only vectoring one aircraft who's instruments I'm looking at as well as the 'radar' map.
I presume when people talk about vectoring to 11 miles downwind that's a straight line drawn at right angles from 11 miles on the extended centreline? The aircraft's DME will be reading an 11 mile arc so will need to read more than 11 miles before turning in. I'm sure I can work it out using some GCSE level maths! Update : I reckon abeam the 11 mile point, with a 6 mile base leg the DME reads 12.5 using Pythagoras!
Last edited by Propellerhead; 19th Sep 2014 at 14:46.