Originally Posted by
The Range
What's so dangerous about dialing a VOR and following it? OMG!
And why do you have to bother the controller with that.
The FO should know how to navigate like that.
For the non pilots, nowadays we don’t even have paper charts in the flight deck! SHOCK, HORROR!
To fly VOR to VOR would take quite a bit of effort. Finding frequencies, setting the aircraft up to fly VOR to VOR, seeing exactly where you are, adds to the cockpit workload. Why not pass the workload on to ATC.
Nowadays, we can even make an approach without NBD, VOR or ILS. Amazing! We can fly an RNAV approach. I won’t go into the finer details but if there’s a system degradation you ask for vectors immediately from ATC!
Unbelievable eh?
PS The guy in the video did an amazing job. Loved it!!