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Old 3rd Feb 2015, 13:38
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Another thing to consider here is the distance - the OP stated the VOR is
BlueJays - At the airport
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But he does not say WHICH airport, with a VOR at both ends and a distance of (say) 120nm you will initially want to track OUTBOUND on the departure VOR on the 200 radial, this is because you will be out of range of your destination, heading will be 200 as no wind. depending on height you will lose the first VOR due to range, when within range of the destination VOR you then want to track inbound on the 020 radial (OBS at the top on 200 though, still tracking and heading 200). You may actually find though that when you pick up the destination VOR, due to various factors, you are not actually ON the 020 radial - you then have two choices - centre the needle and fly inbound on whatever radial you are actually on, or fly L/R to centre the needle and fly inbound on the 020 Radial. Also note that if you follow a radial outbound to get somewhere errors in the system may mean you are L/R of track when you get there, obviously the further away from the VOR that you are the larger the off track error - you can be looking at up to 5 degrees or even more, though this is rare, so 60nm from the VOR you could be 5 miles off track!
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