VOR Navigation Explained - Pro Pilot | Former CFI

A VOR tutorial made by an ATP rated professional pilot and former CFI that covers the basics of how to navigate using VORs.
How to use a VOR can be quite confusing to student pilots. VORs are not difficult, and this video's intent is to make VOR navigation easy with visual presentations and then flying the presentation in Microsoft Flight Simulator and covering the basics of VOR navigation.
The video will start with by explaining the parts of the VOR indicator instrument then by explaining a VOR, how to find them, and how they work.
How to TUNE and IDENTIFY a VOR using Morse code is demonstrated and shown in the video.
VORs can be used to fly to a VOR from the present position, a desired course to or from the VOR, or a 2nd VOR can be used to locate the aircraft's position.
Radials, VOR instrument indicators, DME, Reverse Sensing, Chart Supplement, and the FAA Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, and the FAA Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards (ACS) are demonstrated and shown.
DME is not always accurate due to slant range error. This concept is illustrated and demonstrated.
VORs can reverse sense. This phenomenon is shown as well as how to recognize reverse sensing and how to fix it.
Sectionals used in the video are from VFRMap.com
The top-down image of the Piper Arrow is from JustFlight Piper Arrow add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator justflight.com
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This video is for entertainment purposes only and NOT intended to replace instruction from a qualified flight instructor. Microsoft Flight Simulator visuals are used but MSFS does not mimic the movement of the CDI needle 100%.
0:00 - What You Can do with a VOR
0:15 - VOR Indicator Components
0:58 - What is a VOR?
1:23 - VOR Radials
2:55 - How to Tune and Identify a VOR
3:43 - Flying Direct to a VOR from Present Position
5:05 - Flying a Specific Course TO the VOR
6:30 - Find a Radial with a TO Indication?
7:00 - VOR Triangulation
8:50 - Station Passage
9:18 - Flying a Specific Radial FROM the VOR
10:40 - Heading has no Impact on VOR Indications
11:18 - Reverse Sensing
13:05 - Distance Measuring Equipment (DME)
13:30 - DME Errors
13:50 - Slant Range Error
14:15 - Chart Supplement, ACS, PHAK
14:40 - VOR Minimum Operational Network (MON)
#navigation #msfs #aviation

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

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[@sergey79]

Very nice! I love VOR to VOR navigation!

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

You and me both! Throw in some NDBs and I’m on cloud 9.

[@garyamusic]

Cleanest explanation yet....thanks CPD!

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

Thank you. That’s great to hear. I spent more than a day focusing on visual examples and verbiage.

[@jakew9887]

Great presentation. Thanks

[@rixxy9204]

I remember learning VOR's when I was really young in FS1.0 - I had just learned decimal numbers and started understanding how to use the OBS's. Tbh I hated them but they worked OK with a DME... I was just so happy when ADF's came to planes.

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

My first experience with them was in a Cessna 152 in the mid 90s. VORs were confusing but with a little practice they became easy. Navigating with an ADF is tougher but still easy with practice. NDBs are just about all gone but with the technology we have today, there isn't a need for NDBs. What year would you have played FS 1.0? Also, I see you've been a subscriber for over 2 years. Thank you for that!

[@rixxy9204]

@@thecorporatepilotdad No problem! It was around 1983. Graphics, sounds, everything, it was all just .. bad. But it was Something !! By the 90's the sim really improved significantly. When I took my first discovery flight in training, I was extremely comfortable with the plane.

[@tyronehousen4294]

Finally understand how to use VOR

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

Awesome to hear that! VORs are quite simple with a little bit of practice.

[@PilotDaveAviation]

Great Job ! Love the video

[@ghostbusterspluscollector9624]

This is the first thing I have watched that made me understand this easily! Thank you! Have you made a video about calculating fuel burn in flight for a diversion?

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

I have not but it is good to hear you found value in the VOR video. A lot of time went into that video.

[@tyronehousen4294]

you is the goat!!

[@maheralazzawi7814]

very good

[@user-jh5fm7ci6o]

I understand VOR's however, Trying to do this under the hood flying by instruments only and holding my headings, altitude to ACS standards. I can manage to tune the two From VOR's but trying to graph two lines on my Foreflight or paper maps to find my position is super difficult for me. I end up loosing my heading or altitude as I am under instrument. I can only take my eyes off the instruments for like 2 seconds at a time and that's not enough time for me to even try to start the graph line. Easy on the written exam but super hard doing it when flying under the hood. Is there any tricks to this. I have my Private Pilot check-ride coming up and need to find my position under the hood and stay in ACS standards.

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

Practice in the airplane with your instructor. Don’t focus on tuning and finding the radial, but do so in short segments. 1-2 seconds can be spent turning the OBS knob/finding the radial at a time, then go back to the instrument scan and repeat. Also, make sure the airplane is properly trimmed and in straight and level flight.

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

Good luck on your checkride!

[@iGemera]

i have questions what is VLOC, NAV(green light) and GPS what is mean if show or turn off

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

That just shows where the source to the VOR receiver is coming from. VLOC is VOR or LOCalizer and GPS would be when the mode is changed to GPS, if equipped. As far as NAV (the green light), that would be the same as VOR or LOC as far as I know. I cannot find any supporting data to show there is a difference.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

"Don't want to fly over an ex-girlfriend's house" 🤣🤣🤣 I remember actually learning the old school navigation techniques in a previous sim version. I've gotten lazy in the current sim though and use the Garmins. 😁 May be time to go back to some VOR flying.

[@AdhamNafea]

Its very confusing, when you say intercept raidal xxx, does that mean from or to? inbound or outbound? am buzzed

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

Radials are expressed as from the VOR. Even when flying to a VOR, the airplane is on a radial in terms of position from the station. If flying to a VOR on the 180 course to the station, the aircraft is on the 360 radial.

[@user-wx9dg4xe7t]

Can you please tell Which simulator are you using ?

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

Microsoft Flight Simulator

[@TheFalconJetDriver]

Short sweet and complete! Did you ever fly with a DCE computer? Back when I flew DC-9’s ( the Jurassic jet, ) the DME would only give you distance no ground speed readout! You had to compute that! However the Convair 580 (The Convair, a Sauris) was modernized with a KN64 DME. 😁🛫

[@thecorporatepilotdad]

I never flew with a DCE computer. Rental aircraft I flew had no DME with a single VOR, DME, or LORAN C. One airplane did have an archaic GPS that was mind blowing at the time in the late 90s.

[@TheFalconJetDriver]

@@thecorporatepilotdad I flew a Lear 25 and Falcon 20’s in the early 80’s with Loran. They worked pretty good and a few Lears with VLF Omega units🤯🛫