MSFS: VOR Navigation Basics in the Cessna 152 - Microsoft Flight Simulator

[@KipOnTheGround]

Here's a newer (2022), full-flight video I made using VOR navigation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4OvlGqNnsarrac

[@owenlittle9172]

What do you do if the nav light doesn't come on when you push the swap nav button

[@CessBee123]

​@owenlittle9172 4 months late I know but when you get airborne it should come on. Sometimes the VHF signal is blocked when on the ground.

[@jeffchapman8992]

That was excellent! Thank you.

[@The-One-and-Only100]

Why was your video the end of the chain from the first video ever on youtube?

[@Tabfren]

This tutorial needs more attention on KZbin, excellent delivery, easy to follow and not filled with extraneous information

[@Tabfren]

@@joerihuffmeijer3247 pick up the Waco from the market place, you won't be sorry

[@grizzle273463]

NO SHIT!. I despise those who explain ad nauseum their background, their last family vacation, the color of their dogs eyes only to desperately filter thru all the BS of the lesson.

[@ericfleming5522]

I feel like the youngsters watching this are missing out on just how revolutionary this low-tech navigation tool was. If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, all you knew of the world in Microsoft Flight simulator was doing loops around Meigs Field. Maybe you'd do a short hop from there to Chicago O'Hare if you were feeling adventurous. But learning VOR was like earning your flight simulation black belt: it was the moment you dug the manual back out, found the map of VOR transmitters and frequencies, and realized you could theoretically go anywhere. Now nearly everything in the game comes with a simulated Garmin, and flying a simulated plane between airports is only slightly more complicated than using your phone to navigate your car to an airport's departures terminal in real life.

[@kraudavid5975]

What's crazy is that once you get a grasp of VOR it's just as efficient as GPS. The only problem is getting a good grasp of it because it is extremely confusing. But once you get a hold of it, it's okay. I'm like 70% of the way through of understanding them.

[@ericfleming5522]

@@kraudavid5975 I don't necessarily know about "just as efficient" since you're still tethered to particular transmitting stations which are located at fixed points on land rather than an orbiting network of satellites that can help you chart a direct line between any two points on the globe. But it's still amazingly flexible--I recently spent an entire day in the simulator taking a Cessna 152 from Seattle to San Diego using VOR just to prove to myself that I still remember how to do it.

[@Marcos76Antunes]

@@kraudavid5975as for everything, we need practice. Am trying to learn as I just know where to go with a garmin g1000 but I feel like analog planes are more fun. But as we as used to VOR and that, the more able we are to understand and locate so we can navegate more efficiently

[@jonwilliam3597]

When I learned to fly (When Pontius was a pilate!!) actually in the mid 1960's, our initial instrument training was with an ADF and NDB beacons. This was quite a challenge at first but very pleasurable when mastered. Moving up to VOR especially when combined with DME was a god send, it was so easy providing you could understand TO and FROM and a 360 deg. compass rose. My first privately owned aircraft was a Grumman AA5B and I had it fitted with a King KNS80 which allowed you to move a VOR to almost any location, fantastic at the time. I recall also being able to make my first instrument approach using a VOR DME. However after a 40 year flying career and having used just about every navigation system available both military and civil, my favorite is still the mark I eyeball and a chart. A little difficult when crossing the Atlantic of course, there aren't too many waves on the chart!! But is extremely important to understand the limitations of any system and paramount to keep a mental picture of your current position should any system fail.

[@rerun3283]

My whole family is teachers and I was in high school for 7 years so I know a thing or two about education. You're an expert educator. Cheers, pal.

[@nitemunky76]

Quick tip: hold ALT when you rotate the OBS knob to increment it in a single degree.

[@scottboyan]

It was so good. I’ve been teaching for 15 years (an unrelated subject) and your teaching was excellent.

[@grizzle273463]

Now that is a pro black belt tip. GTK

[@AstrogeoJay]

Thanks I was wondering how you could get it more precise,

[@C.Pachovsky]

This is a great video :)

[@KipOnTheGround]

Removed their comment.

[@Rizashi]

Oh man, i've been flying the cessna for so long with vfr maps and had a lot of fun but want to progress. Seen a lot of videos of navigation but they all lose me so quickly as i dont have the back knowledge needed for even their rookie tutorials so just felt stupid watching them. Here you are, explaining in 20 minutes what others couldn't in 20 hours (at least that i could grasp). I FINALLY GOT IT! THANK YOU! If this had been my first lesson for a flight sim, it would have shortened my learning curve so so much. KUDOS

[@KGSOsimpilot]

Man, as an IRL student pilot this is awesome! I was looking for a tutorial on VORs so I could simulate them in MSFS2020, and I made a 200nm trip with ease using only VORs! Thanks for the guide, you deserve more views!!

[@SeattleMarc]

Every time I see one of Kip's tutorials I think, "I've done this many times already, how can I possibly learn more than I already know?" And yet each time I learn a ton. Like the others, I'm sure I'll be re-watching this a few times. Kip's clarity of thought and language allows him to thoroughly present complicated topics with stark simplicity. Keep 'em coming please!

[@leinaddnalkrik9009]

Kip, my aviation journey has only just begun. I'd never even heard of VOR before encountering this video. Thank you for providing such a phenomenal explanation of this topic. You have tremendous talent in the realm of communicating ideas. 🤯 Mind = blown 🤯

[@Gemolitics]

Best VOR tutorial. To the point. I like the use of simple aircraft with analog instruments to better explain the meaning of those gauges and radios. Thanks!

[@TheStlgg]

Clearly one of the best VOR tutorials on KZbin. subscribed :)

[@MrPardal]

Man, your videos are awesome. I'm new to MSF2020 and I'm learning a lot watching your video tutorials. Thank you!

[@1972challenger]

One of the best flight tutorials I have seen. Thank you.

[@JesusGreenBL]

Thank you! Brilliant tutorial. I was watching another tutorial on this from someone else and I had absolutely zero clue what they were talking about the entire time - but watching this one you made everything super clear and I understood perfectly well what I need to do. Appreciate it!

[@fuzzmex3]

Your tutorials really pack a punch. Full of clearly communicated useful info, yet lean and concise. Great teaching skills! Thanks.

[@wkboggs5]

“Useful”?! Since starting my sim flying a couple yrs ago, this video has been the MOST useful and I’ve referred to it a few times and have again today. Mthanx for the content.

[@meekoshmoo1626]

I swear, this guy is on another level of helpful and explanatory its crazy! By far the best MSFS tutorials!

[@timothybucher2588]

KZbin randomly fed me this video based on watching so many MSFS'20 tutorials lately. This was so well explained I'm subscribing immediately. I finally know what that dial on the right is, lol. Thanks for this!

[@Avionics2]

Feel sorry for those who are trying to learn VOR and dont find this video. This is by far the best VOR navigation I have come across. 👍👍👌👌

[@ralphm6157]

Watched half a dozen other folks attempt to explain VOR navigation. THIS was the one that made perfect sense. Thanks for the great vid!

[@RionPhotography]

This makes so much more sense than just hearing them tell you about it in the in-game training!

[@njbpaul]

This is by far the best demonstration I've seen on KZbin on how to use vor navigation . i get very frustrated trying to understand vor navigation . Thanks a lot for this . keep up the excellent teaching

[@grizzle273463]

You were a total mom. You fully explained, held my hand and reassured me throughout the entire flight. This was what "I" needed. Thank you so very much. 3 thumbs up. And you now have a new subscriber.

[@derekraines8175]

Hahaha I agree THANKS!

[@Mike-Holiday]

This was amazingly presented, I can't thank you enough 🎉. You're a natural born teacher.

[@danielramos6354]

I cannot thank you enough. Sharing knowledge is one of the most altruist things a human being can do. I just want to make sure you understand how grateful I am for you to take the time to record this. Kind regards from the other side of the Americas, Brazil!

[@AstrogeoJay]

Thank you so much for this, I have never bothered with VOR navigation before, simply because I thought it was to complicated, your tutorial explained it so well that I decided to give it a go and now I have had several successful flights using VOR navigation! It was so satisfying when my destination airport on my first attempt came into view, and thinking, this actually works! first one was a relatively short trial flight, the next one I was feeling more confident so I did my first international VOR flight, (although it was still not a great distance between the UK and France) I did that one in stages departing from Southampton and stopping of at Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey and then heading over to Dinard, my return flight I flew directly to Alderney and then back to Southampton.

[@MickeyBoom1]

Not a bad tutorial. As a pilot/ex-flight instructor myself VOR's were always the hardest thing to teach students. I would do everything from teaching them how to fly reverse sensing to, "Hey, you're right here, what do you do to intercept a radial?" I have a few tips and tricks that weren't covered in this video if anyone wants more in-depth tips too. In fact, I may make a video on my own tips here in the future. Great video and a great start to getting started with VORs!

[@lvachon]

I went through a half dozen videos before I found one that was concise and well laid out enough for me to follow. Thanks!

[@yusufhoda4588]

I usually never leave comments but I'm appalled by the production quality of this video. As far as the educational value of this video is concerned I didn't understand VORs till this video and to see it being implemented in a realistic scenario flying from slo to Santa barbara really helped me! Thank You so much and keep doing the great work!

[@MyYammi]

I just learned more in 20 minutes than I have in a long time! This lesson is great, thank you!

[@AmbitiousAviator]

The quality of this video is amazing, you're an excellent content creator. Thank you very much!

[@taissawoods3359]

This is explained so much more understandably than other places. Thank you for the clear explanation.

[@hiortintexasracing]

You do the best intruction of any videos i have seen on the MSFS!

[@Robert420L]

Finally eureka moment after 12 years....thank you so much...u r inborn teacher ... keep the great work coming 🙂👍

[@alejandrogarcia-tq1jr]

The best VOR navigation tutorial, thanks.

[@coriscotupi]

Back when I was a student pilot (1980s) with maybe some 30 hours total, I was talking to a pilot and he taught me something that at the time, I didn't quite grasp how important it was going to be. He said, _"if you want to fly directly to a VOR station, center the CDI with the TO/FROM flag showing "TO", and then fly the heading you see on the top of the OBS disk. It will take you to the station"._ That phrase stuck in the back off my mind. Fast forward to when I had my fresh private pilot license (no IFR yet, not even 100 hours total) and was invited by a fellow pilot (no IFR either) to accompany him on a cross-country flight on his newly-aquired Piper Arrow. Mid-flight, the air started to get hazy, to a point where we could still see the ground below, but not very far in any direction. I suggested that we should land at the nearest airport, to which he agreed, but then he said this: _"Um... I think I'm lost."_ And then that teaching of a few months prior kicked in. I tuned the airport's VOR, identified it, centered the CDI with the TO/FROM flag showing "TO", and said, _"fly this heading, it will take us to the airport."_ And it did. And we landed. Lessons learned: - Get an IFR rating as soon as possible (which I did). - Think long and hard before jumping in an airplane that some hotshot just bought.

[@RS-gn4bv]

Subbed in the first 20 seconds. I think this channel is going to become one of my favs very quickly.

[@calegonrj]

You're a natural born teacher. Congratulations.

[@Kevlux86]

Heading and course aren’t the same thing and it’s a really important distinction to keep straight, especially for instrument flying. And when the flag says “TO,” that doesn’t mean you’re flying to the VOR. You could be flying away from it. The “TO” flag indicates that in order to fly TO the station, if the needle is centered, fly a course of what you’ve dialed in. This is a really hard concept for students to grasp and we’ve got to be precise as to not mess them up.

[@sunsetsarsaparilla3485]

Best VOR video on KZbin

[@michaeldomanski2472]

Great video, love how you used the old school 152 no frills, just learning and understanding

[@ashwinkoshti9991]

I have seen so many vids on VOR, totally new to such things, coudnt understand one bit but you explained it very well. Thank you so much.

[@user-zc9zt2vl5s]

You make the best MSFS tutorials ever. So straight forward and easy to understand! I really look forward to more tutorials from you, especially the G1000 NXi!

[@coldisle]

Thank you Kip. You have demystified something for me, and I did not want to even think about a pilots license if learning VOR nav was going to be like quantum physics. What a great natural teacher you are! Can’t wait to crank up MS FS 2020 this morning!

[@wkboggs5]

Hey man. I just found your stuff and these two VOR vids gained you a new subscriber. Great content and very well done. You're a very effective instructor.

[@es330td]

When I was working on my private pilot's license my instructor said VOR navigation is easy if you remember "Tune, Twist and Turn." "Tune" to the frequency. "Twist" the knob to either "To" or "From" "Turn" the plane to the proper heading to bring the needle to center. Never had a problem again. I love flying VOR to VOR.

[@nickbrennan1866]

Late to this party as I'm an xbox user, at 40 I never thought I would understand this stuff. That was crystal clear, thank you.

[@pika6oo]

This was by far the best explaining/teaching of VOR I have ever seen, well done!

[@jonathanpadoa8987]

I have to say. Even thought I know this vid is a little old now, I found it so informative and never knew a thing about aviation at all. Thanks man. Will check out your new video now.

[@willschmidt7191]

Good stuff Kip. Clear, concise, not complicated. Thanks mate, from Will S. Down Under. [Sydney Australia that is]

[@stevecullen5415]

I’m very new to msfs and flying in general. Your video was a huge help to letting me use and enjoy the experience. Thank you!

[@andrew54292]

This video was awesome. Super informative, educational, and concise. I would love to see something like "Ground School for MSFS." Thanks for making this video! I now know how VOR navigation works and how to apply it. Great job!

[@leeyft]

I have currently been watching all of your video to refresh myself for IFR flight! it is really helpful!! thank you!

[@fuzzyboi1721]

This has been by far the best explanation I've seen!

[@FellipeRodrigues89]

Your tutorials are the best. I’ve spent countless hours trying to understand something that you made seem so straightforward. Thank you!

[@tubeztoonz]

Just watched this a second time. Very well done, with just the right amount of detail. Thanks!

[@fabiolean]

Your channel is a godsend I've been trying to figure out which buttons actually *do what* in these planes. Thank you!

[@ErikNonIdle]

Fantastic video! I knew nothing about VOR before this video, and now I feel like I really grasp the concept. I am going to watch your newer video, too, then mess around with it in MSFS202. Cheers!

[@jonbuggins5575]

Great tutorial, really want to learn the basics of navigation in the cessna before moving onto the automated stuff, this is super helpful 👌

[@DomininicaN20LJ]

I’m new here in MFS and this video help me a lot thank you 🛫

[@napynap]

Thank you for the refresh. I've used VOR navigation in FSX, but I haven't had much time to play FS2020. Ready for flight now!

[@napynap]

Oh an Sub+1 for the excellent vocal delivery.

[@fly2golf985]

Always nice to see my home airport on KZbin..also someone that pronounces San Luis right ;)

[@jessejones1102]

Sooo, it was this simple? Why on earth does everyone make it sound so confusing. Thank you so much!

[@wm973]

Yep. You dunnit right and proper. I been listening to these Aholes who start out on the topic and then completely veer off on an all together subject. Ya wanna tell people how to replace a green dash led then don't explain how to remove and fix the speedometer. Completely understood from beginning to end. Great job!

[@jeffdeluca1153]

Awesome! I FINALLY GET IT! I've watched a bunch of tutorials and usually ended up more confused. You nailed it! Thx

[@enriquebriceno]

Excellent my friend,

[@wdoodoo1]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! As a new sim pilot I was curious about how to use those instruments inside of the cockpit. Happy flight!

[@FightbackMediaGroup]

I was at the point all of this was just too complicated for me. This video explained VOR perfectly! Thank you!

[@derrickheffelfinger4691]

Thanks, you that clears up sooooo much. It was easy with Garmin but moving back to the 152 was tough.

[@alandonn8031]

Excellent! Great description of VOR.

[@r1ckn0rr15]

This tutorial was absolutely fantastic!!! Thanks so much.

[@bufftheowl]

Very nicely explained, thank you! I love using the instruments to navigate and doing ILS landings, anyone can stare at a screen and press AP. Using your brain is much more rewarding.

[@KipOnTheGround]

I'm definitely guilty of using AP a lot more than I should :-) I love all the tech. Haha.

[@bufftheowl]

Kip on the Ground, well when the scenery is this good anybody can be forgiven!!

[@richardpoile2118]

A great, 'easy-to-understand' video, many thanks!

[@rolandnitsch686]

Super Kip! Best explanation and production of video I have seen.

[@CessBee123]

This is really good, thank you. VOR has been a game changer for me. Earned a sub.

[@TaroIkai]

Excellent tutorial. Easy to follow from SkyVector to implementation. Thanks!

[@bradwynwestwood5127]

Great job on your clear and concise tutorial. I’m sure many people will benefit from this.

[@nick11927]

This is great. Hope you make more videos in the new year!

[@Brian_Pike]

You are da man sir!! Sooo appreciate your hard work on these. Very, very beneficial! Will be promoting your channel every chance I get! 👍

[@uzur4217]

you make it so easy to understand your tutorials are amazing

[@mr.dudemeister7321]

Thank you! Trying to learn the systems in this Cessna before moving onto another plane with more systems. I was gonna buy a flight textbook or something. This helped a bunch!

[@bcsimpilot3497]

Kip, great video, your voice is soothing and full of knowledge. I believe every word that drops from your yapper. If we understand the lesson on the ground, then it will work in the sky. Thanks...SUBSCRIBED!

[@kjclaus319]

I’m subscribed now after watching that. Thank you for making it so clear.

[@A-A_Z]

Best video explaining VOR navigation ever thanks !

[@mitchapalooza]

This is super helpful, thank you for the in-depth explanation!!

[@coloneljakesza5780]

Thanks for this. I'm finally starting to understand VOR navigation. Your video was very helpful.

[@davegreen6022]

Very helpful and clear. Many thanks from England.

[@KenJames9911]

Brilliantly explained...

[@zackwest1]

Many thanks for the clear instructions. Following your flight made this learning go smoothly, and right to the target airport. Looking forward to more instructions.

[@Gceger84]

Great tutorial! will be using this myself next time I'm in MSFS2020

[@bobbyfoster7080]

FANTASTIC VIDEO!!! I finally got it! I'm going to purchase the "Flight Simulator" program because of you, thanks a lot!! Keep up the good work!

[@corisco7590]

Here's a ramification of the VOR logic: If you want to just fly from your present position toward a VOR station, just tune in the frequency, adjust the OBS until the CDI needle is centered with the "TO" flag displayed, and then fly the heading indicated on top of the CDI. Or, more succinctly, *_center the CDI with TO flag and fly the heading shown on top._*

[@ranjeetchadda5156]

Was about to watch this whole video then I saw your comment and I understood and didn't watch this video . Thanks so much bro 😇

[@yankunflies]

This was clear, concise, and everything I needed to rock some VOR navigation. Thank you so much!

[@jean-richardalfred733]

I am newbie, with your help (this tutorial) i made it to the Airport, but need to work on my landing skills . Thank you 🙂

[@mortal_tomkat_]

perfect video! had to learn the radial with the course. every time i fly with vor i forget 😂

[@scottboyan]

Well-done! That was a great explanation!

[@BipolarBLKSheep]

Dude this is an awesome tutorial! Thanks a lot!

[@hawx786]

The tutorial in the game really did not go into detail explaining navigation. This is great, went into great detail especially for someone very new.

[@dillank3240]

Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video.