http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_measuring_equipment
I know , it's wikipedia , but it gives a short explanation of the VOR -DME
pairing ...
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:01 PM, James Turner <zakal...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 8 Sep 2009, at 20:01, Torsten Dreyer wrote:
>
> >> There ara a lot NDB-DME in /data/Navaids/nav.dat
> >> ...
> >> 2 -42.72933900 170.95621900 146 310 100 0.0 HK HOKITIKA
> >> NDB-DME
> >> ...
> >>
> >> http://wikimapia.org/9701833/Hokitika-NDB-DME
> > No doubt about this. But I don't know of any NDB receiver (which is
> > also known
> > as ADF) that automatically tunes the DME frequency.
> > Most modern receiver for VOR do this, like the KX165, but that is
> > due to a
> > link between the DME-receiver and the NAV-receiver.
> >
> > As far as i know, you have to tune the DME part of your NDB-DME
> > manually and
> > the cited line of nav.dat is unusable for the DME part, because the
> > DME
> > channel is missing.
>
>
> There's also this entry:
>
> 13 -42.72933900 170.95621900 146 11750 100 0.0 HK HOKITIKA
> NDB-DME
>
> which is the DME part of the NDB-DME.
>
> As Torsten notes, none of the receivers in FG at present do pairing of
> NDB-DME frequencies, and I have no idea if any real world equipment
> can do this - or if there's even a defined pairing scheme. You can
> happily tune your ADF to 310KHz, and a DME receiver to 117.5MHz, and
> either/both should work, but there's no link between the two other
> than their geographical co-location.
>
> Again, if anyone with more knowledge of such facilities wants to
> comment, please do.
>
> James
>
>
>
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