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Hey MzeroA Nation!
Jason here, remember those really tough questions on the private pilot knowledge test
where are you in relation to the station?
And they give you the three OBS indications and you're just trying to figure out am
I northwest of the VOR? It's a to, it's a from, where is it?
What is the real world applicability of all that? Well, in today's
video which is a clip taken from our actual private pilot online ground school
I'm going to help you get a better understanding, and really
world applicability as to VOR navigation.
Now this clip is a little bit shorter than the one that's actually in the online ground
school, you'll be able to see about half of it here, but if you want
to see more, in fact, if you want to see the entire online ground school
I'm also offering up a two week no strings attached trial as well.
Links are in the description below this video.
Let's go ahead and cut to that clip and learn a little more about VOR navigation.
Hey guys welcome in to the VOR module,
so we're starting in the flight simulator, and I like
starting the sim because it allows me to take you guys outside
of the aircraft, so we've got our VOR already properly
tuned up to the right frequency and we're flying
but I was just dropped on a map, I have no clue where I'm at, so let's go ahead
let's start that airplane flying here for a second.
the first question you always ask yourself
when trying to figure out how to navigate to a VOR
is you need to answer this question, Where am I in relation to the station?
Where am I in relation to the station, well I'm all tuned up so how can I
tune up my OBS right over here on a
to indication--see this flag here showing me on a to indication--I want a
tune up and center up on that, so let's do that really quick here.
And I'm going to twist to the right. How do I know I need to move to the right?
Well because my needle is over to the right. See I'm twisting
there, my headings are coming around,
coming around, here it comes, it's swinging in, it's swinging in, it's swinging in, I'm right up top here
and look at that I'm like zero four five--let me pause for a second right here--
to make a point, if I want to proceed direct to the
station now, I would head zero four five,
let's un pause it now, and let's actually
go ahead and do that, so watch this, now I'm going to
come down and I'm going to move the old heading bug
and let's proceed like a zero four fivish type
heading and let's see what that does for me. Alright
we'll roll out, and now I'm on that heading,
My OBS says I'm heading to the station. Let's
pause it now for a second, and let's step outside the airplane and take a look at that.
Let's go to our local map, and take a look at what we just did.
Here we are, out here, and here's the Ocala VOR,
you can see I turn to that zero five four heading we can see that going
we're going to head straight on in to the actual VOR.
As you can see, we were kind of a little bit to the right of that heading out this way,
we turned out to the left now we're heading to the VOR.
Let's do that same thing again, except let's move the airplane let's put me on
I'm going to drop myself out here this time. Let's go ahead
everything looks set, and let's do the same thing again, give that a second
to load here, and we're going to reset it and say okay,
where am I now in relation to the station,
same thing, VOR's already tuned up, I'm on that
previous heading though, but where am I in relation that station?
So here I am on a to indication, let's go ahead and center
that back up now, so I'm twisting to the left. Why am I twisting to the
left? Well, because my needle is to my left.
So I'm going to twist and twist here, get that coming around, the SIM doesn't move quite
as fast, I know I got to be getting close, oh here it comes,
and,
here we are centered on like a three one zero
let's go ahead and turn to a heading of about three
one zero, not about, let's do it, so I move I'm using the autopilot,
here to make it real easy so I can talk and fly all at the same time here
I'm going to twist that heading bug around to a three one zero
heading here,
let that come around, you'll be able to see that turn,
and let's let this turn kind of continue to happen here,
for a half a second,
autopilot's going to start rolling, now something really interesting
happened, I rolled out on a three one zero but look at my needle now,
it's off to the left still, that's because I took so long to make that
turn, let's go ahead and make that turn, I'm continuing to fly through radials, so jeez
let's go ahead, if I want to get back on course, I need to turn more to the left,
let's do this, you could cheat and just move your
OBS up top, oh look, I'm back on my course, and then adjust
heading to that new heading of three zero five, but let's not do that.
Let's go ahead and leave it on that three one zero and say how am I going to
get back on that, well I need to adjust my heading more to
the left to intercept that radial, this is the beginnings
of intercepting and tracking, I need to go left of the course so let's
do that three one zero's the goal so I'm going to go a little bit to the left and try
to real that needle back on in, and what I want you to do
is watch this needle here, watch this needle start to slowly
sneak it's way back in and once it gets close to center
what I call the Top of the Donut, if you can see it right here this little circle
right here we call that the top of the donut, once it gets there, I'm going to turn
back to that three one zero, see the needle slowly sneaking its way
in, I'm getting my heading ready to move back
to that three one zero heading, here it comes
and I need to anticipate it, so let's start that
and let's move back to that three one zero,
now, and we roll out, and
we're just about back on center, if I wanted to get really picky I could inch a little bit more
to the left, let's pause it now and go back to our map and show what just happened.
Here for a second, back to our local map, alright well here we are
and you can see our track here, look at where we started.
We were flying, we had to tune up,
where we are in relation to the station and we begin to make that turn, see how that turn took us toward
our VOR, and you can see how we started to get off that course
a little bit and here's where we put in that intercept to get back on that course a little bit
back on that course, back on that, this is showing you kind of that course line
going through that VOR that we working to kind of reel back in,
so there you have it, a little introduction we'll call it into VOR navigation,
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