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Old 13th May 2003 | 21:16
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Aussie Andy
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Question bearing/distance references

Whenever I've wanted to put an arbitrary point into a flight plan without having to resort to lat/long, I've used bearing/distance references in the form "VORbbbdd" where VOR is the ident of the facility, bbb is the QDR and dd is the distance in NM.

For example, DTY18020 would be a point 20NM south of the Daventry VOR.

This seems to work so I presume I am doing it right - but I would like to know where in the AIP this format is specified so I can be sure I am doing this right. Does anyone know?

Thanks,


Andy
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