VOR/DME Approach - FlightGear HowTo #29

This video tutorial explains how to perform a basic VOR/DME Approach towards an airport. VOR/DME can be very useful when approaching an airport if you can not see the runway yet and there is no ILS system. But I think VOR/DME is more often used for general navigation on long distance flights.
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---Additional Info---
Software used to make this video:
FlightGear (v 2.8)
ScreenFlow (recording)
Final Cut Pro X (editing)
Motion (motion graphics and intro)
Logic Express 9 (music)

[@osjcag]

I sure am; I'm subscribed to multiple channels of people who use FS2004/FSX/MS Flight, but I'm not interested in using it myself or making videos about it. That's not only because I have a Mac (I could install Windows if I wanted to), but I like the FlightGear community and the rapid development it's going through at the moment.

[@nabildhifallah6964]

it's a mervellous approach without calculation of the time of reducing altitude and speed and tail wind this plane is very sofesticated and on the board all buttons are nice and good to look so the heading is clear and easy to use as a reply to the frequency of the station where the plane wants to make her approach ;really we need to see more and more tutorial like this

[@osjcag]

This is a great alternative to ILS, in a way that it's more of a human task to watch the progress and take over for a manual/visual approach at the right time. Yet ILS can be awesome, especially on lazy days with the autopilot enabled :)

[@sarunint]

Thanks Oscar! Now I'm fully understand this navigation thing!

[@joshinthetube]

very good explanations and pictures.

[@osjcag]

Exactly, VOR arcs are a level up on difficulty I think, but it can't be so hard to explain. Maybe I'll do a (few) real time recording video(s) again showing the progress of me learning how to do it and figuring out a way to explain it. Then I can make a HowTo about that as well!

[@kwekuadu7434]

How do you use the FGcom using the 777-300

[@dermihazap674]

Thank you it's very helpful

[@osjcag]

That's great! Although there's much more to navigation than only VOR/DME! Eventually I think there will be more navigation HowTo's ;)

[@liverpoolrk]

hey oscar what version of lfightgear are you using and plz can u make a tutorial on how to use ils on version 2.8 and my last question is do u use a joystick and if yes which one

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Video stops and plane flies off the end of the runway.... :D Seemed to land wayyy too far down for that type of AC, I suspect most pilots would declare a GA, you're supposed to land within the first third of the runway, and not halfway down, Good instructional video though.

[@MrCakarunkumar]

Very Useful tutorial thank you for your tutorial. And offcourse great landing

[@iyadzakiy2121]

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[@ProSim4uvliegsimulaties]

Thank you for sharing this video! Perhaps you could explanation a bit more on the altitude management e.g. the distance/altitude table which is an important part of the VOR/DME approach?

[@sundevilification]

great suggestion. I am all ears. thanks.

[@DjTomas]

I really need help on the 787 and the A320 with the AP or Auto Land

[@46Bax]

Hey oscjag, i have a question for you, are you interested in something else that FlightGear ? For example fs2004 ?

[@DuckisLS]

Hey Oscar, I have a question. Is a380 available on Mac yes or not?

[@freedomofflight3138]

So what if the pilot set the nav 1 radio to the ILS frequency of the runway? Also, how do you find the heading of the vor?

[@OmegaFG]

How about you make a simple tutorial on how to read SID/DP and STAR charts, maybe some IAPs too ? :)

[@MrDVB96]

Time to test! XD nice vid and thx!

[@freedomofflight3138]

So let me throw a scenario at you. Your pilot has just taken off. The ATC tells the pilot to fly to the (insert vor here) and then resume own navigation. (The vor is supposed to put you on your flight plan) What would you do? Would you find the heading of the next waypoint and put that into your course selector?

[@gokmen9928]

Blane landed nicely on runway ten. Denks. :D Finally I understood these VOR/DME approach, very efficent video!

[@yangqiming808]

Osjcag,I am having trouble with the Boeing 787-8,can you help me pleaaaaase?

[@DerKaiser71]

Could you make a Boeing747-400 Tutorial and an A380 please!!??

[@luke34121]

Nice landing, helpful video; learned something new, trying it tomorrow! Liked and subbed, Oscar!

[@AriomesterDaniel]

Thank you!!

[@chessdude67]

Nice video, Oscar. I think I got it. :) Thumbs way up!  :)

[@fockewulf9518]

Personally i don't trust the VOR/DME approach. If not ILS i rather do a visual approach.

[@jgfour4687]

hey how to use autopilot in 747????

[@munirrani_]

Make a video how to land those planes because its very large and heavy :D

[@CristianValenzuela2155]

are u Dutch?

[@sarunint]

Maybe the arc that you've said?

[@osjcag]

Anything specific about those 2 planes? I can't tell everything about the planes in just one or two tutorials; way too much to tell ;)

[@munirrani_]

@DerKaiser71 Yeah i want that video tutorial too

[@jjovereats]

colourblindness i guess and the line is in the Map - that is the cyan line.

[@ryantamayo4616]

Last To Get Laid!!

[@diganwhisky.uruguay]

That's NOT a VOR-DME approach. On a VORDME approach you need to fly an arc with a fixed distance to the DME station (which is established on the approach charts), then intersect a determined radial (which once again will be established on the charts), and only once you are on the airport minimums (again, established on the approach charts) you should line up the a/c with the runway

[@3ZzOoOZz1]

I want a tutorial from one to 10 , i mean from begginer to pro.

[@nourmanhjr]

@2:48 : 95 or 96? :hammer

[@d_mosimann]

If you're new to navigation - as you say, actually - you shouldn' do a tutorial about it. - And indeed, you missed / ignored most of the important stuff about a VOR/DME approach: the corresponding approach charts, the glide slope profile, speed control, minimum descent altitude, decision altitude, outer markers, crew resource management / task sharing, and so on. Keep playing your video games and leave the providing of education to the professionals.

[@jjovereats]

I'm very sorry to say but the white line is cyan.

[@macsorj]

I'm pretty sure its both :P

[@jjovereats]

and at 4:25 it's white.

[@RobloGuys]

He might have some hardware problems like he can't get 777 last time :P

[@Henoik]

Yup, It's white

[@osjcag]

Wow I would swear that's white haha. Well I guess people still understand what I was talking about ;)

[@3ZzOoOZz1]

Really haard

[@Henoik]

Nope, it's white.

[@mahela1993]

what about using approach plates?