Mehmet Velicangil writes:
I have a couple of questions that I am not sure of about the
calculation of target heading. is the nav heading the heading from
the north or the difference between our aircrafts and the
navigation points heading angles and is the nav radial the angle
between
Most VOR receivers and indicators have a clever little trick -- if you
tune them to the reciprocal of your current radial, they will display
a TO flag and reverse the needle sense, greatly simplifying
navigation towards a VOR. If your VOR indicator is displaying 90
TO, however, it's
Alex Perry writes:
From the point of view of learning what VOR and NDB systems do,
actually trying to fly a holding pattern on either type of station
rapidly shows what the needles do ... and why ... for the contrast.
In some ways, I find the NDB holds easier. The ADF works just as well
