Click Here To Help Improving This Blog !One of my activities while I was active in Geneva was to introduce practical radio-navigation to students, using the club simulator. This was a preparation for the radio-navigation part of the in-flight syllabus, and this hopefully saved time and money.
Many students were slightly lost with the course selection and the use of the TO / […]
One month ago, I posted a quizz about radio-nagivation, in the post “GPS Failure ! Are you ready ?“. I know I promised the answers one week later, so yes I’m late on this one, but here are the answers.
1: You fly away from a VOR on radial 030, how do you set your OBS […]
GPS is everywhere, making old-fashioned radio-navigation obsolete. But what if your on-board equipment fails ? Do you have a handheld unit ? Are you ready to revert to radio-navigation ? If ATC request that you intercept and follow a radial, or what is your position from an NDB, will you comply easily ?
If you think […]
