Hoppy
The problem with this thread is that it's skipped navigation 1-9 and jumped straight in at chapter 10 RNAV.
To the OP:
You are going to be flying the magnetic tracks given in your flight plan to your way points, but why do you need the VORs tuned?
Difficult to answer without knowing how your aircraft is equipped. If it's a basic "radio nav only" (no FMC/IRU/even no FMC) are you going to rely solely on a magnetic track to get from A to B - no cross check?
With the relevant VOR tuned up and displayed you've got a basic way of knowing where in the world you are (airmanship/MFSmanship?
), and a way of monitoring the tracking.
Indeed, once upon a time, before the days of RNAV some of us used to teach radio aids nav and the skill of flying to a radio defined waypoint directly without tracking in or out on a radial....well sometimes it worked
