User Guide

Flight Simulator
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Why don’t you try intercepting the 030-degree course on your own?
1. Activate the simulation by pressing P, then turn to a heading of 300 degrees.
2. When the needle begins moving toward the center of the instrument, begin a turn toward a
heading of 030 degrees. (If you’re lucky, you’ll roll out on 030 degrees as the needle centers. But
don’t worry if you don’t time the turn properly. This takes practice.)
3. If the needle isn’t centered, just turn 10 or 20 degrees toward it (to the left in your case) until it
does center. Then turn back to a heading of 030 degrees to center the needle.
4. Press P to pause the simulation when the VOR indicator looks like the one in Airplane D (Figure
8).
Airplane D in Figure 8 will eventually pass over the VOR station and its flag will automatically flip
from TO to OFF to FROM. Obviously, the airplane is now on the 030-degree course from the station.
Keeping the needle centered will eventually put Airplane D directly over Yazoo airport.
Many VOR stations come equipped with a
second transmitting device known as distance
measuring equipment (DME). A DME receiver
in the airplane (Figure 10) displays a readout
of the airplane’s distance from the VOR
station. Let’s suppose you know Yazoo’s distance from the VOR. Let’s also suppose that the airplane
has an airborne DME receiver. If you fly the selected course from the VOR until showing that
distance on your DME display, you’ll be directly over the airport. This provides a very accurate way of
finding an airport.
Flying from
the VOR on a
Selected
Course
Let’s make VOR
usage even more
practical. Suppose
you are airborne in
the vicinity of Ulost
airport (just like
Airplane A in Figure
11) and want to fly to
Wrongway airport.
Since this is a VOR
tutorial, let’s use the
VOR to find
Wrongway.
Figure 10
Figure 11
C
B
A
ULOST AIRPORT
WRONGWAY
AIRPORT
122.1R
BIGFOOT
116.8 Ch115 BFT
HURON
TO
TO
FROM