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Old 14th Sep 2010, 12:19
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Keith.Williams.
 
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You are right in saying that the correct answer is the top right diagram.

The heading required to fly to the VOR is 101 Grid (which is 006 True).

And the VOR is 6 degrees to the left of the nose of the aircraft (on heading 095 Grid which is 000 True).

But the VOR is aligned with the local meridian (True North), so the VOR needle shows 000 True (instead of 095 Grid which it would show had it been aligned to Grid North).

The trick in this question is to notice that the gyro and compass card are aligned to Grid North, but the VOR is aligned to True North. This will tempt some candidates to select the bottom left diagram.
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