Plane and Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

VOR Indications Some VHF omnidirectional range (VOR)-related questions ask you to identify your position on a map based on the indication on the instrument. A great way to better understand these types of questions is to see the VOR in action, either in the airplane, or via simulation.

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Density Altitude Pilot Center of Gravity VOR 73

Gary's Flight Journal

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since I was tracking the VOR I decided to knock out a VOR check, flying the Waterloo 171 degree radial to the IAF FEMOD. I made another nice approach then once again broke off early for pattern traffic. This time I cleared the area to the north to reposition for the Localizer 32 approach.

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Pilot Institute

AUGUST 9, 2024

Most holding fixes are NAVAIDs such as VORs, RNAV (GPS) waypoints, and even ILS markers. When VORs are used as holding fixes, the fix is usually a specific DME distance on a particular radial. If the VOR doesn’t have DME capability, it will be the intersection between two radials from two separate VORs.

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Gary's Flight Journal

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

First turn was direct to the Charleston VOR (CHS) then expect vectors. My second example was my recent flight home from Vero Beach. I was given the RNAV GPS 17 approach into Mt Pleasant (KLRO) expect vectors. Sure enough I fell into the rabbit hole. No problem, I'm above a layer but knew I had to shoot an approach to get into LRO.

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AV Web

JUNE 6, 2024

After flying “several miles” toward the assigned VOR, the Bonanza began a tight right turn to 213 degrees and its rate of descent began to increase, ultimately reaching as high as 15,000 feet per minute. He climbed to close to 10,000 feet and was instructed twice to maintain 9,000, which he acknowledged with “descending to 9,000.”

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Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Next, introduce the VOR. Have them use the VOR to determine what radial they are on, and if the unit has DME, show you where they are on a sectional. For an extra level of challenge, reposition the virtual airplane and have the learner use the VORs to determine where they are using triangulation.

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AV Web

JUNE 6, 2024

After flying “several miles” toward the assigned VOR, the Bonanza began a tight right turn to 213 degrees and its rate of descent began to increase, ultimately reaching as high as 15,000 feet per minute. He climbed to close to 10,000 feet and was instructed twice to maintain 9,000, which he acknowledged with “descending to 9,000.”

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VOR Approach Descent Tail 75

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Santa Monica Municipal (KSMO) has a fix called DARTS, located on V-186, that serves as the intermediate fix for the RNAV 21 and the VOR-A approaches. This gives you a good planning workout in the simulator, as you are now in GPS tracking mode instead of VOR tracking mode.

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Aeronautical Information Manual VOR Approach Air Traffic Control 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Practice your scan along with GPS or VOR tracking while flying in actual. The beginning stages of instrument training are spent developing your instrument scan and multitasking. It may be VFR outside, but if there’s a broken or overcast layer, climb up to get to it.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Instrument Flight Rules Ceiling VOR 52

Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. Once south of Myrtle Beach I was turned direct Charleston VOR. We finished breakfast and headed to the airport. I had completed the preflight yesterday so all I needed was to sump each tank and mount cameras. On departure I flew runway heading for a good distance.

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Runway Approach Weather VOR 105

Northstar VFR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

If the inspection hasn’t been performed and signed off by the proper maintenance technician within the required timeframe, the airplane isn’t allowed to fly. Before flying, a pilot must verify these inspections have been performed by looking in the maintenance logs.

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Pilot Weather Checkride Operating Limitations 68

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Does it have GPS, INS, or VOR systems? The weather is used to plan the route, calculate the cruising altitude, and more. You will then have to focus on the aircraft’s navigation equipment. Depending on the navigation equipment, you’ll plan the flight’s route. You must know about airspace restrictions, bad weather, and other considerations.

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Flight Training Central

MAY 23, 2024

If you’re having trouble with cross country flights or VOR and GPS tracking, fly with your instructor to an early breakfast. If you train at a towered field, do the opposite. A non-towered field with a shorter runway will challenge you and help you hone your aim-point on landings. Or maybe fly west to dinner to watch the sun set.

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VOR Approach Airplanes Runway 52

AV Web

JULY 7, 2024

We navigated using pilotage and occasionally a VOR. Have you ever seen those power outlet plugs in an airplane cockpit that we plug our iPads into? They used to contain cigarette lighters, which were used all the time to light cigarettes. Having a DME was a distant and expensive dream, and RNAV was out of the question for us.

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Cockpit Airplanes VOR Transponder 98

Northstar VFR

MAY 19, 2024

It’s helpful when ground school content and flying skills tie in together, such as learning VOR navigation. Disadvantages: On the other hand, if you do all your ground school and test preparation before flight training, you may forget some of the knowledge by the time of your checkride.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

For primary pilots, I like the manual E6-B because the wind side helps with visualization of crosswinds and learning about VORs. They come in an electronic form (think calculator on steroids) or the mechanical E6-B, which is a circular slide rule and looks intimidating until you realize the instructions for use are printed on it.

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Flight Computer Pilot Airplanes VOR 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

Avoid this situation by sitting down with your CFI and going through the logbooks to verify the aircraft is airworthy, using the acronym AAV1ATE as your guide (ADs complied with, annual inspections, VOR every 30 days, 100-hour, altimeter/pitot static system every 24 calendar months, transponder every 24 calendar months, ELT check).

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Pilot Knot Annual Inspection Altimeter 116

Aviators of Tomorrow

JUNE 13, 2023

While GPS navigation systems have become standard in modern aviation, it is possible to fly cross-country using traditional navigation methods such as pilotage, dead reckoning, and radio navigation aids like VOR and NDB. It is highly recommended to have GPS navigation capabilities for cross-country flights.

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Air Traffic Control Weather NDB Flight Plan 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Let’s look at holding clearance example below to identify the various components (note the absence of turn direction indicates standard, right hand turns are expected): Hold north ( direction from the fix ) of Volunteer on the 360 degree radial ( name of VOR fix and course ), five mile legs ( leg length ), expect further clearance at 15:50 zulu (..)

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Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

7 IMC, finally breaking out into VFR as we approached the CVI VOR. Hovering over the CCV Cape Charles VOR was a line of building clouds. The plan worked for the most part, plenty of IMC with light rain and a very smooth ride. It felt good to relax a bit, at least until we crossed the Chesapeake Bay.

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Air Facts

APRIL 10, 2024

The written test had 25 questions and the hardest thing on the practical was explaining what VOR was and how it worked. In spring of 1967 I soloed after eight hours of dual and received my ticket that fall. Various life events came along to make getting in the air difficult but I almost always managed.

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General Aviation Pilot Cockpit VOR 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

There are a wide variety of options on the market, ranging from simple radios to units with GPS/VOR navigation features and full ILS capabilities. In addition to your aircraft’s installed radio systems, handheld radios provide an important layer of safety and redundancy in case of radio failure.

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Gary's Flight Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As we approached Barrett’s Mountain VOR you could make out the mountains ahead. Our ride at six thousand five was smooth despite the brutal headwinds at thirty plus knots. Asking for lower we settled for fifteen to twenty knots still in our face at four thousand five hundred. The tallest peak was four thousand so we steered clear.

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Approach Knot VOR Weather 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

There are a wide variety of options on the market, ranging from simple radios to units with GPS/VOR navigation features and full ILS capabilities. In addition to your aircraft’s installed radio systems, handheld radios provide an important layer of safety and redundancy in case of radio failure.

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Aeronautical Information Manual Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control 52

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

If the runway could not be made my plan was to put the aircraft down in the field west of the airport close to the VOR. I had practiced the same turn many times before as well as studied the surroundings of the airport on google maps. All airports I frequent I have a plan for encase [sic] of a [sic] emergency landing.

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Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot 66

Gary's Flight Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

We departed Ocean City in very strong gusty winds and pointed for Snow Hill VOR. Todays routing will be Ocean City (KOXB) to Mt. Pleasant SC (KLRO)for a fuel and go.There were n o cameras today, I just didn’t feel up for it. I believe the gust actually pulled the gear door open which triggered a gear warning light.

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Weather VOR Knot Hangar 52

Plane and Pilot

MAY 23, 2024

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Tom and I filed via the Rockdale VOR, which was a starting point on the Nobbi Five arrival procedure used in the greater New York area. As the clouds broke up, we could see the Catskills lurking beneath. Our destination was the Westchester County Airport (KHPN) in White Plains, NY. That was a good plan.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 26, 2024

Requesting Pilot: Greenwest Approach, N123AB, Cessna 172, overhead Sedona VOR at five thousand five hundred, en route to Johnsonville, request flight following. You can often request flight following directly from a towered airport controller. Requesting flight following from approach or center controllers is just as easy.

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Clearance Runway Approach Pilot 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

If flying under IFR, you’ll need a VOR or TACAN receiver, or an RNAV system (GPS). Equipment Requirements A two-way radio. A Mode-C transponder (automatic altitude reporting capability) inside the Mode C Veil. ADS-B Out inside the Mode C Veil.

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Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

Even though I was likely to be cleared through the outer ring by ATC (air traffic control) while on an instrument flight plan, I filed a route from Sodus to the Williamsport VOR (FQM) that circumvented the TFR entirely. The reroute was minimal, an insertion of Yardley VOR (ARD) into my flight plan. Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the gloom.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

We were assigned a slightly ridiculous alteration to the route I filed: MANCH T316 LAMMS T608 ROC that had us flying past Sodus to the Rochester VOR before setting up for Sodus. Once on with Syracuse, I decided to rectify the inefficient routing at the end of my instrument clearance and requested direct to Sodus from the Syracuse VOR.

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Approach Ceiling Weather Runway 52

Jetwhine

JULY 17, 2024

One time I observed a FAA ramp check of a Colombian cargo DC-8 in Miami and both their VOR/DME and ADF’s were INOP, however; they had one portable Garmin GPS with wire antenna that was attached to the captain’s side window with a suction cup. That satisfied the FAA inspector that they could legally depart Miami.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

ADFs, marker beacons, and VOR receivers, each relying on a constantly shrinking population of land-based navaids, fill these dated flight decks. However, when it comes to the instrument panel, the picture is not so rosy. Many elderly singles and twins come equipped with a panel chock full of aviation history.

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Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 99

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Just north of the Selinsgrove VOR, Harrisburg called with the first change in routing. From Williamsport, the Susquehanna River follows a ridgeline westbound to Lock Haven, former home of the Piper Aircraft Company. Today, the river valley was filled with fog extending from Williamsport westward beyond Lock Haven.

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Flight Training Central

APRIL 29, 2024

VOR, you must complete a special awareness training program and hold a certificate of training completion. Each site can illuminate and track a particular aircraft. If you see this, you should immediately contact ATC. If you want to fly within sixty nautical miles of the Washington D.C. You can find this requirement in 14 CFR 91.161.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

MOCAs are lower altitudes that provide the same assurance of obstacle clearance as an MEA but only guarantee navigation coverage within 22nm of the VOR. Published routes typically follow more friendly terrain, affording you more options for contingencies.

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