User Guide

Learning To Fly with Rod Machado
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How to Navigate by VOR
To navigate by VOR, you must first tune and identify the VOR station on which you wish to navigate.
With the appropriate frequency in the navigation receiver, you’re ready to select a course to fly (a
highway in the sky).
Rotating the OBS and placing a specific number above the index (Figure 4) allows you to select any
one of the VOR station’s 360 flyable courses. Let’s suppose you select 360 degrees (or 0 degrees,
they’re the same thing) with the OBS, as shown in Figure 5 (position A). Your VOR display now
automatically orients itself to show you where the 360-degree course is located relative to your
airplane. As you can see, the 360-degree course runs completely through the VOR in a direction of
360 degrees. If you had selected the 270-degree course, your VOR display would orient itself to the
270-degree course as shown in Figure 5 (position B). Selecting 030 degrees with the OBS orients the
display to the course shown in Figure 5 (position C). And selecting 240 degrees orients the display to
the course shown in Figure 5 (position D). Let’s try selecting a few different courses with the OBS.
1. From the Flights menu, click Select Flight, and choose Tutorial 9, Situation 1. Leave this
simulation paused.
Figure 5
360° COURSE 270° COURSE
030° COURSE 240° COURSE
B DCA