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 / […]
This post is the first in a series about airport equipment. If you always wanted to know all what these antennas, lights, signs, markings and other stuff are, you landed in the right place.
These orange antennas located in the extended runway axis are transmitting the “Localizer” signal of the Instrument Landing System (ILS). It is […]
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 […]
