The One in 60 Rule for VORs and Course Corrections

[@Reciprocative]

Hands down, the best aviation learning channel on the internets. Thank you for your service.

[@GeneIpenburg]

I was taught, the outer edge of the inner circle is 2 degrees off selected track and then each dot is a further 2 degrees.

[@stevekirk8546]

Excellent advice. I only fly in simmulation but came to realise that if I was blown five degrees off course then correcting by five degrees would do do no good - ten degrees was necessary and when connecting back to the original radial then fly the five degree offset. Old stuff school I suspect but very effective.

[@Scott-wx1ed]

Commercial test question….great explanation!!

[@williamk5998]

Excellent discussion. This underscores the advantages of GPS, but it's still good to be aware of the concepts of the VOR.

[@GoCubbies2011]

Since the track error is 12°, at 5:14 in the video, I think it would have been more accurate to say "12° correction" instead of "10° correction".

[@healerf18]

Great review. Need to know exactly this kind of course correction for the Commercial written exam.

[@Wini.F]

Thank you sir, perfect as always! Have a nice day.

[@gonetoearth2588]

This is a great rule! If you interview for airlines they might actually ask you the track miles of a DME arc. To do this you could use a 60 to one rule and figure out how many degrees you have to go around because you could figure out how many miles every degree is using this rule. Impress your friends!

[@omnijack]

Thanks for teaching us how to correct a Kevin-Bacon deviation

[@willswanson2145]

I never really got this concept down. I just memorized the answers for the commercial written and will hopefully never need to use it.

[@boardingpass8183]

Great. Dan, please do ADF review and how to read it

[@williamk5998]

Reach into the dusty box in the corner of the hangar that has discarded avionics in it. The ADF is under the Loran. Place the ADF on top of the instrument panel above the GPS. Focus your attention just below the ADF on the 'bearing' indication on the GPS. Fly that bearing. 🙂 There are fewer than 300 government owned NDBs left (as of 2017) and they are being decommissioned by attrition.

[@user-pq8gy2ci2t]

​@@williamk5998please don't say that... Maybe it's THE Nav Aid available to some aviators in their part of the world ..... Still!!!!!!

[@williamk5998]

@@user-pq8gy2ci2t With fewer than 300 left in the country and fewer still as they degrade and are taken off line may be time to save up for something more current in the panel ;-) Maybe they are more prevalent in other countries I don't know

[@johnopalko5223]

@@williamk5998 But you _need_ an ADF in the panel! How else are you going to listen to the ballgame?

[@williamk5998]

@@johnopalko5223 Valid point. Until all the AM stations are decommissioned (hopefully no time soon) this is a perfect application of an ADF. It also points to lightning strikes so there's that too 🙂

[@AhHalo-y2z]

Awesome illustration! Thank you. Whats the reliability of picking up a VOR signal 60NM away from the VOR while flying a C172??

[@JustSayN2O]

On the GPS navigator screen, how does the "DTK 051 degrees" help us with either situatin awareness or course correction?

[@nelsonbrandt7847]

Forget the math. Just double the angle of intercept and you’ll never miss intercepting the course.

[@antoinest-hilaire227]

This is good only if you are in the first half of the leg. If you are past the 1st half and you just double the angle, you will miss your destination. You have to do the math you are past the 1st half. Fortunately the maths are not that hard ;)

[@nathanwells4809]

Someone is watching Cyrax content.

[@user-pq8gy2ci2t]

Its really heart breaking that new age pilots wont be able to comprehend the stuff old guys like us had to learn to get that course corrections. The E6Bs, the folding maps, the hazard updations. A dacade later, maybe you dont need a pilot anymore....

[@williamk5998]

Agreed. As a fellow Old (not bold) Pilot however I'm not giving up my Foreflight and touchscreen GPS!

[@steelumbrellaco760]

Let’s gooo

[@floatingmallows]

I’d be surprised if anyone actually uses this ever

[@jomckarth4836]

exactly; why not just turn the nose to the needle and bring it back to center....? did i miss something?

[@akwakatsaka1826]

@@jomckarth4836cause you’ll never manage to get back on the radial that way. You’ll just correct for the drift yes, BUT you are just preventing your deviation from increasing. You’re not eliminating it, thus you’ll keep going with a 4nm sideways error hopefully that’s clear