On Friday 25 October 2002 8:57 pm, David Megginson wrote: > John Check writes: > > I see that tuning the ADF radio is now done on the standby channel. > > It was my understanding (which ain't much) that at least on some > > units you can tune the active channel > > My experience is limited, but the only units I've seen where you tune > the active frequency directly are radios without a standby frequency > (the ones I've used are big cold-war jobs that have a nob for each > digit on a physical wheel). >
It beats my experience, thats for sure. > > 2 questions. > > > > 1) Would anybody object to me activating a switch so we can have > > both? > > It depends on what we're emulating. Before you go ahead and add it, > though, why do you want it? For radio navigation, you generally want > to be able to tune your next station in advance without losing the > current signal as you move from one NDB to the next. Typical examples > include following a Romeo air route between two NDBs (not that > uncommon in Canada -- I've done it a few times already) and flying an > instrument approach that uses one NDB for the FAF and another NDB for > the missed approach (I'll be doing that soon). > In reality I can't think of a case, because you'd know what stations to tune in advance, but if you classify fgfs as a "game", you might want to be able to search for ground stations. I seem to recall something about some units having an AM reception mode also. > Its the same principle that you use with the VOR and the VHF radio -- > try to stay one step ahead of the plane by having your next frequency > already tuned it (for example, I usually have Ottawa Terminal ready on > standby while I'm still talking to Ottawa Tower after departure). > > > 2) Should we just switch to the KR87 thats sitting in cvs unused? > > Sure. > It seemed like a good time to remind everybody that we have that. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
