The COM & NAV Radios 2 - Learning to Fly for Beginners in X Plane 11 Part 13

In this video we complete the flight mentioned in Lesson 12, a short flight from Benton Field O85 to Redding Muni KRDD. I will discuss using the COM to talk to Redding Tower and use the NAV radio for an ILS landing.

[@benhood7680]

Skip, your videos have been the single best resource for learning x plane and the basics of aviation. The value added to the community is immeasurable! Thanks for the great work. I’m enjoying learning with your very straightforward and clear tutorials.

[@WEHVideos]

Wow!! thanks so much Ben, really appreciate that! Glad the videos are helping. By the way, if you want to use the same airplane I use in my videos X-Hanger has given me the rights to their Cessna 172N and have allowed me to give it away to anyone who would like to use it for following along in my videos. You can learn how to download it by watching the video in the link below: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o56yqXl4oMx4eKc Thanks again and thanks for watching, Blessings, skip

[@victorpapa1]

Your instructional videos are among the very best for aviation simulator enthusiasts. Great job!

[@WEHVideos]

Thanks VICTOR PAPA glad the videos help and thanks for watching. Blessings, skip

[@toddalligood5891]

Thanks for taking the time to explain...I'm new to IFR and found things here very helpful.

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Todd, Thanks really glad to hear it helped and thanks for watching :-) Blessings, skip

[@nimzoknimzok]

Really like your tutorials, they're both informative and well structured

[@WEHVideos]

Thanks nimzok glad to hear you liked the videos hope they helped:-) Blessings, skip

[@VETTE-wj8qq]

Thank You for this instructional video... Found it helpful... I look forward to checking out some more of your videos. Again ...thank you for taking your time and posting....

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Vette 1981, Glad the video is helpful and thanks for watching! Blessings, skip

[@VRFlightSim]

Thanks again Skip, just starting out on radio/nav work and this really helped... Love that moment you dropped under the cloud layer and were perfectly lined up on 34, Cheers! Chris

[@WEHVideos]

Hi VFRFlifhtSim, Really glad this helped! Yea coming out the clouds was pretty cool. Thanks for watching. Blessings, skip

[@chrisspatgen]

Glad to see you making more training videos. As always they are the best!

[@WEHVideos]

Thanks Chris I appreciate your encouragement :-) Just need some new ideas for videos now. Blessings, skip

[@mirageycq]

Another good one, thank you so much. Bed time now, will see you 2morrow for another adventure in learning. Cheers

[@WEHVideos]

Always looking forward to hearing about your progress, see you tomorrow :-) Blessings, skip

[@bclukay]

Just getting back into flying, really appreciate your excellent videos!

[@WEHVideos]

Hi bclukay1, Thanks and welcome back hope the videos help :-) Blessings, skip

[@mikenevin6556]

Thank you so much, really clear and helpful

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Mike, Thanks glad to hear it helped and thanks for watching :-) Blessings, skip

[@MrSnacko]

Thank you so much for making these videos! God Bless!

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Andy, Your welcome and thanks for watching hope they help. God Bless, skip

[@pgreenx]

Hi again - sorry for another question; Ive been going through all the videos and they are extremely helpful.

[@WEHVideos]

OK, what's your question? Glad the videos are helpful!! Blessings, skip

[@pgreenx]

@@WEHVideos Sorry must have gotten cut off. Ive been sim flying the C152; does that have DME? I couldn't find it thanks again!

[@WEHVideos]

I don't think so, the one I have doesn't. You should be able to tell by looking at the radio stack it should be there if it has one. What 152 are you flying, X Plane or third party? Blessings, skip

[@pgreenx]

@@WEHVideos msfs2020. I need to upgrade to the 172 but taking it slow.

[@WEHVideos]

Oh, I don't know about the airplanes in ms2020 but I'm pretty sure there 172 will have DME.

[@philliplviana]

Awesome stuff as usual. Thanks Skip!

[@WEHVideos]

Thanks Phill glad you liked it hope it is helping, Blessings, skip

[@robertjones2787]

Excellent!

[@WEHVideos]

Thanks Robert and thanks for watching hope it helped :-) Blessings, skip

[@robertjones2787]

@@WEHVideos Yes it did help. Thanks

[@uroscadez]

great stuff. thank you!

[@WEHVideos]

Thanks Uros and thanks for watching hope it helped :-) Blessings, skip

[@uroscadez]

@@WEHVideos Thank you very much Skip. I'm working towards obtaining a PPL, and these videos are are great resource. Thank you for investing your time to create and share your knowledge!

[@WEHVideos]

Your welcome Uros and thanks again for watching glad the videos are helping, good luck with your PPL keep me posted on your progress if you don't mind :-) Blessings, skip

[@Graham_Wideman]

Very useful video, and I appreciate your efforts on these. One point: The dots and dashes are in Morse Code (after Samuel Morse), not "moris code".

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Graham, Glad you found the video useful, hope it helped. And thank for that bit of info on Mr. Morse :-) Blessings, skip

[@sarathw5740]

Yes you are one of the best!

[@WEHVideos]

Thanks Sarath glad the videos are helping :-) Blessings, skip

[@Wilhuff]

Nice videos. Sad that flight sim 2020 no such tutorial. It helped me understand how these radio things works and why people buy radio panels ;)

[@WEHVideos]

Thanks Wilhuff and thanks for watching glad it helped.I'm guessing there will be tutorials for FS2020 in time it's still pretty new. Blessings, skip

[@Archonch]

Super Nice tanks

[@WEHVideos]

Thanks Yorick and thanks for watching hope it helps. Blessings, skip

[@pauloboyle5078]

Thanks Skip nice landing, 2 questions I didn't see the ILS Outer. Middle or Inner indicator lights activate on your approach ? and will the NAV radios pick up the VOR's freq when outside the ring shown on the Sky Vector Map. Please keep up the great work you're brill'. Paul

[@WEHVideos]

Hi and thanks Paul. Not all airports support markers, Redding is a small muni airport so guess it's not available. A VOR can be "picked up" 30 to 45 or more miles away depending on weather conditions and terrain, in perfect conditions possibly up to 200 miles away so the ring, or compass rose, shown has nothing to do with the VOR range but shows you radials of the VOR. There must be "line of sight" to the VOR, so hills and mountains, buildings etc. can mess with the signal. Altitude helps as well, the higher you are the better "line of sight" you have with less chance for ground interference for the signal. Hope this helps. Blessings, skip

[@pauloboyle5078]

@@WEHVideos Thanks Skip that makes perfect sense, another puzzling question when tuning the Nav radio for a ILS landing it looks like a VHF frequency is used, which is fine for the Localiser but the Glideslope / Glidepath is UHF so how does the Nav radio / compass know ?

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Paul, Well I never gave that much thought and I’m no expert on NAV Radios and radio frequencies. You mention “NAV Radio / compass” and I’m not sure what you mean by that, there is no compass associated with the NAV Radio. The ILS system use VHF and its range is farther than the Glide Slope UHF plus it uses a much larger antenna array. I can’t tell you how they work but very simply put (and probably not completely accurate) they are two separate systems each sending a signal which is picked up by the NAV Radio, which in turn interpret the signals and outputs the information to the ILS portion and GS portion of the VOR/ILS indicator. Sorry I’m not much help here but that’s the best I can come up with. Good question :-) Blessings, skip

[@kd5you1]

@@WEHVideos Tropospheric ducting can cause or allow VHF signals to travel beyond the horizon, so it would be possible to pick up the right VOR from far away or even a wrong VOR from anywhere along your flight path. This is why it is important to compare the morse code ID you hear with the VOR you intended to receive.

[@WEHVideos]

HI John, Right you are. The signal can also bounce off mountains and then instead of flying to a VOR you're flying into a mountain!! Another good reasons to use GPS but I still prefer the old way, Pilotage, Dead Reckoning, and VORs. Blessings, skip

[@bigalexg]

9:08 "right there is the VOR, that little indicator right there" I must be missing something, what exactly are you referring to? Thanks and BTW your video course is fantastic! Following along all of the videos in this series and any others you have out there.

[@WEHVideos]

Hi bigalexg, Glad you are enjoying the series and hope it's helping! Well you caught one of my mistakes! I have three monitors but only use the middle one for the videos and while I could see the VOR station on my left monitor I didn't move the view far enough to get it in the video :-( . Next time you are landing on RWY 34 at KRDD look to the right and you will see the VOR station. Sorry for the confusion. Blessings, skip

[@bigalexg]

@@WEHVideos Thanks Skip I wondered if it was the ground station but thought maybe I was supposed to be looking at the panel. Didn’t want to miss something important. Yep, you put a lot of knowledge and effort into this series and I’m learning so much more than I was from other more amateurish efforts, of which there are a multitude, lol.

[@WEHVideos]

Hi bigalexg, Unfortunately I miss things when reviewing the videos before posting and it takes someone to point these things out. Fortunately most mistakes don't cause too much trouble and don't make much difference in the "big picture" but can be annoying because you think you missed something and it was me, such is life :-) Blessings, skip

[@sabertoothhook3334]

Boeing vs Airbus which is better? and do you think I should get XPlane 11 is it anything like real flying what are the pros and cons?

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Sabertooth Hook, Good questions! I do almost all my flying in small airplanes like the one I use in my videos so I'm not much help in your first question. I will say I purchased the Boeing 777 and it is amazing. The learning curve was way to steep for me so I quite trying, only because I wasn't that interested in big jets. I only have experience with FSX and X Plane and since FSX is no longer supported by Microsoft and third party people are trying to keep it going I have to believe X Plane 11 is the way to go in the future. Both FSX and X Plane have strong points and issues. X Plane is weak on scenery but it is getting stronger and stronger with each release. Plus there are tons of freeware scenery packages you can download from the x-plane.org site. They also have hundreds and hundreds of free airplanes you can download however I prefer the payware airplanes, they just seem to have a nicer feel and look, in most cases. I had well over 1000 hours in FSX until I switch to X Plane when Microsoft bailed, I'm really happy with the switch. I like the fact that you also get Plane Maker with X Plane so you can modify some airplanes or even make your own if you are up to the challenge. X Plane also has a program called World Editor (WED) you can download for free and create your own airport or modify existing airports. Bottom line, Iv'e heard that FSX is built on old technology and will eventually be too far outdated in the future while X Plane is going strong and hopefully will only get better. I know there other sims out there but I can not comment on them as I have no experience with any other that FSX and X Plane. I'm sure you could find some review videos on the other sims to help you decide. Good luck, let me know which way you go. Blessings, skip

[@sabertoothhook3334]

oh so I heard that X-Plane is the best sim currently I used to play fsx and prepared3d (P3D) but Xplane 11 is the way to go since it has better lighting and graphics, customization ability for air crafts and scenery and much more detailed aircrafts, multiplayer vatsim ATC and so much more to it and the menu options and the way they allow you to set up your flight is very detailed in Xplane 11. :)

[@apivovarov2]

@13:12 Skip, you are planning to land on runway 34 (course 342) and you want to use ILS. Why your CDI is set on radial 129?

[@WEHVideos]

That's a good question and I didn't notice that. The "to" "from" arrow is correct don't know why it show the wrong compass heading. I just selected the localize tuned to 108.4 and let it do it's thing. Blessings, skip

[@apivovarov2]

Better to set runway heading on CDI. It might be helpful for the pilot to determine in which quadrant the airplane is located relative to ILS and what heading the pilot needs to take to intercept the ILS beam. Needle and from/to arrow show you 3 quadrants on CDI where you are NOT located. Using elimination method you know that you are in remaining 4th quadrant.

[@Galbex21]

Sir, can you please tell me what software or flight simulator you are using if you could be so kind, please. Thank you.

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Gabsare, I am using X Plane 11 simulator, you can get it here: www.x-plane.com it is also available on Amazon. Blessings, skip

[@WarrenPostma]

So maybe this is all too obvious to even state in the video (and the prior part) but did you mention that the depth of “radio operation simulation” in XPlane seems to be: 1. Give the person practice setting up radios and switching active radios. 2. There’s NOBODY to talk to here, unless you wire up something like VATSIM to have a human actually to talk to. 3. You have to supply the knowledge of what would have been said to tower and what scenario the tower is going to respond with, for yourself. You’re basically pretending in your own head. Given that, it seems of minimal utility to bother with the setup of radios at all. Other than the ATIS part is simulated. In MSFS, the ATC chatter is added to the “immersion” experience but there’s still no way to talk to the tower. What I’m wondering is if there’s a way to simulate the ATC comms via some text based simulation plugin?

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Warren, Everything you mentioned is true and I don't know of any 3rd party add-on that does this. X Plane 11 does have an ATC function but I've never used it, here's a link to a video explaining X Plane's ATC hope it helps let me know if this is what you are looking for and if it helped. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXfVn4OveayShdU Blessings, skip

[@WarrenPostma]

@@WEHVideos Thanks! Apparently the third party add-on that people use is VATSIM, which is a service which has actual human beings who are pretending to be ATC controllers for you, and others who want to fly in a shared server experience, giving you more of the "realistic aviation ATC communication" full experience.

[@WarrenPostma]

@@WEHVideos Here's a guy flying with VATSIM, his friend is in the regional jet beside him, and he's in his virtual Airbus A320. He is using prepar3d but the exact same experience is possible with VATSIM + XPlane. Note that the default scenery in Prepar3d is pretty dire, much worse than stock XPlane scenery. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWa9qp9jdr1ql80&ab_channel=Airforceproud95

[@WEHVideos]

There's also Pilot Edge which is really good. You have to pay a monthly fee but you get real traffic controllers talking to you. Unlike VATSIM there's always someone there but it can be very busy at times. I did this for a while but they are not too with general aviation flying, more for commercial jets etc. Very intense so I gave up. Blessings, skip

[@WEHVideos]

Hi Warren, Thanks for this, yea scenery pretty bad. I tried VATSIM several times must say this video recording is the best I've heard with VATSIM. Sometime ago I tried VATSIM I'd join but there was no one in the tower or whom I could talk to guess things have changed that was several years ago and I gave up on them. Blessings, skip

[@jonalexanderfilms]

This plane is not in x plane 11.55

[@WEHVideos]

Hi John, Thanks for watching :-) This airplane is from X-Hanger but not available anymore there. They gave me the rights to the airplane to give away so if you want this airplane you can get it for free after watching this video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o56yqXl4oMx4eKc Be sure to visit X Hanger for other aircraft. www.x-hangar.com/store/ Blessings, skip