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Old 8th Dec 2017, 23:32
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eckhard
 
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As roadrabbit says, the VORs are not necessarily aligned with mag north. The difference between true north and the VOR reference is called declination in the USA. As far as I know, the declination can be adjusted from time to time.

You will often find that two VORs at the opposite ends of an airway don’t line up; e.g. the airway starts off on the 060 radial from VOR ‘A’ but then arrives at VOR ‘B’ on the 242 radial (062 inbound), even though the airway is plotted as a straight line.

The reason can be due to different variation at the two VORs but over a relatively short distance is more likely to be due to a difference in the two declination values.
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