Navigating by VOR | Microsoft Flight Simulator Tutorial

[@ellonysman]

Just across the water from Friday Harbour, guess who use to live in a gorgeous estate??? One and only Steve Miller! His estate is actually still on the great KZbin. Love it!

[@FlightSimSchool]

Thanks for the info!

[@thegood9]

Great job with this. VOR is still an important thing, and, the FAA still requires the familiarity with it!

[@adm712]

Experiences from an Xbox user. Using VOR navigation is actually the best way for autopilot to accurately follow heading as well as altitude. However, once you reach your destination VOR there is a glitch as the autopilot will take you back to the prior VOR. The trick...disengage autopilot within 10 NM of destination airport. Your glidepath should still appear to take you to your destination runway. Thanks for the upload and instruction and the time/effort you put into it. VORs were the "only show in town" back when I was flight simming in the 1980s/90s :)

[@FlightSimSchool]

Hehe same here :) thanks for the Xbox tip!

[@Scotty_J.]

Man, has this come a long way. I remember back in the late 80s wuth the original fltsim, you had to buy acual maps with the vor info on it. I used dual vors and triagulation to track my path. My brother in law, who is a professional private jet pilot told me, if you understand vor and dual radio, you could actually navigate a plane. Thats how realistic it was. Man, the good old days.

[@FlightSimSchool]

It's still true today! I've got a whole series on traditional navigation, and there is no lack of "classic" airplanes that you can buy as well.

[@Scotty_J.]

@@FlightSimSchool I appreciate the faith. I spent close to 30 years living in airports and hotels. What I came away from that is, I'm terrified of heights and I hate flying. So the chances of me becoming a pilot is zero Also, I used to fly squad missions with combat FltSim in the gaming zone back in the day, the last flitsim I owned was FltSim 2000. It had GPS and to be honest, I found it boring. My favorite ever was falcon, the F-16 Simulator. Multi-Playrr and a VERY good ATC.

[@FlightSimSchool]

No time like the present to get back into it :)

[@hammerpgh]

I'm late in on this having only just picked up flightsim again after many years away from it. Really interesting video which I'll need to rewatch to try to understand a bit better. I'll check your videos for further on this method of navigating as well in case you have posted anything more on it. Many thanks, your pace for this sort of tutorial video is excellent.

[@FlightSimSchool]

If you want to do more analog style navigation, I actually made a 3-part series on it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqmqmZVjfJKteJY

[@hammerpgh]

@ cool thanks 🙏 Just watched your EFB tutorial so I’ll check that series out shortly as well 👍🏼

[@mauriciomorro6693]

Great video as always. VOR navigation will be around for a few years (and in my opinion should stay like a back up plan in case GPS network goes to hell)

[@olivermccaw8973]

Great lesson for me. Plan to watch more of your videos.

[@skippychurch2965]

Ive subscribed. This stuff is terrific info and you delivery it very well :)

[@ZenonZolek]

Very useful thank you, and your speach rate is perfect to follow

[@greghodges1786]

Really great instruction. This and your other videos are excellent. Keep up the great work. PS - A follow up would be awesome.

[@FlightSimSchool]

Yep there are many concepts that need to be expanded on for sure

[@renes533]

Thnx again for this clear overview

[@josecarlosquezada2279]

Great video,

[@kushCoder]

I've been loving your videos! Do you know where I can find a chart with optimal power and rpm for different aircraft? I remember seeing you brought one up briefly you had on a spreadsheet.

[@FlightSimSchool]

Yes, I’ve made custom checklists for a few planes, they’re all linked in this video with a quick guide to using the checklist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZbNo593na2Nq6M

[@kushCoder]

@@FlightSimSchool awesome, really appreciate your work. I searched for good flight sim tutorial playlists for a while. Your playlists are exactly what I was looking for.

[@jakew9887]

Great Video. Thanks

[@WyMustIGo]

You repeat yourself around 4:40

[@FlightSimSchool]

Probably an editing mistake 😅

[@88keysLA]

Thank you! I thought I was losing it 😂

[@DenisOmahoney-i1n]

Most stimulating

[@TheMrSlize]

Hello. I know this is old video but im getting desperate here. I have no idea why, middle of my VOR needle wont appear ( the middle part that moves). I tune in freq, i get correct info near frequency that VOR is in range, i set CRS but nothing happens :/ Any idea?

[@FlightSimSchool]

Which plane are you flying?

[@googleking5780]

Whey you chose the course of 165 radial ?

[@FlightSimSchool]

If you have a look at the chart that I'm showing at 3:33, you'll see that the 165 radial matches the airway (V165) between the Penn Cove VOR (CVV) and the Olympia VOR (OLM). I hope that helps!

[@JohnVanderbeck]

The "our course is 165 because it is the v165 airway" doesn't entirely make sense to me. Intercepting that airway between VYJ and SEA is V495. Are you going to steer course 495 on that one? Doubtful :) So why is one airway labeled based on a course and another one isn't? How do you know? Besides the 495 being obviously impossible.

[@FlightSimSchool]

That’s a good question. I did a bit of digging, it seems like the number of a Victor airway can be anything, so not based on the course, but it certainly seems like in some cases they do match up. Hope that clarifies any confusion I might have created!

[@scottysansone5884]

How did you get the frequencies for the VOR's? Thanks

[@FlightSimSchool]

You can get them in the world map; enable navaids in the filters and then click on one and you’ll see the frequency. Or, more easily, just go to skyvector.com, the frequencies are all listed on the map :)

[@JohnVanderbeck]

You were flying FROM cvv but TO olm yet never have to change your course setting? I thought you would have to flip it?

[@FlightSimSchool]

Radials are always outbound from the VOR. We were flying on the 165 radial from CVV, but to OLM 165 (which is the radial on the “other side” of the VOR). The way I remember is that when you’re flying TO a station, you tune the same course you’d fly if you were flying it with a GPS: to get to OLM, we need to be on a course of 165. When you want to fly away from a station, it’s the opposite, and that’s why I didn’t need to flip it. Explaining VORs is really tricky, I’m actually working on an entire series on traditional navigation where I’m explaining it a bit differently from this video.

[@cavalierqoon]

Whoa. I didn't know they were retiring VOR. I knew they were letting NDBs go, but damn. #TIL