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For this lesson we will learn how to fly between airports using a waypoint en route. A waypoint would be a VOR or NDB that we use to navigate along the way, with a course change needed. For this lesson let's put the plane on Runway
24 at Martha's Vinyard. Our destination will be Long Island Mcarthur airport, runway 23. This is a trip of about 119 miles. This flight will have 2 waypoints. You can use the earlier lesson about using 2
VOR's to find your exact location. But don't forget to reset NAV1 to your ILS as you near the airport. To start let's set NAV1 to the VOR of Martha's Vinyard 114.5. this is for reference only. let's set NAV2
to 117.80 VOR SEY.. This is the Sandy Point VOR. This may or may not be listed in your Manual.. [FS98 users must climb to around 2000 feet to receive signal from the VOR] On departure we'll turn to a
heading of 268 and fly towards SEY. This is about 46 miles. [FS98 users should keep in mind that some VOR's will only have a usable range of 30 miles, some less. Many will have ranges in excess of 70
miles.] Before you depart, try and center the needle on VOR2 and you'll see that it will take a heading of appx 268 to fly towards the SEY VOR.
[FS98 users must climb to around 2000 feet to receive signal from the VOR] En route to SEY, make any minor course corrections so the needle stays relatively centered. As you near the VOR, the reading
will become less accurate. When you get a few miles from SEY, we're going to turn to a heading of about 261 and fly towards the Hampton VOR 113.60. Change NAV2 to 113.60, you could change NAV1 to 117.80 (the
SEY VOR), if you like if you want to plot your exact location. Adjust the OBI 2 gauge till the needle centers. You'll find it will center around 261. This is the heading we need to fly to reach the Hamptons
VOR (HTO). As we near the Hamptons VOR we'll turn to a heading of 279. If we kept flying on a heading of 261, we would pass the airport to the south and miss our runway, so looking at your map you see we
need to fly a slightly more northeasterly course. At this point set NAV 1 to the ILS for Long Island McArthur airport runway 23, 108.30. You can leave NAV 2 set to the VOR of the Hamptons. This will now show
you how far you are FROM the VOR. After about 28 miles from VOR HTO, we should intercept the localizer for the airport. We will turn to a heading of about 238 for final approach. If all goes well you'll see
the runway about 8 miles ahead and you'll be lined up for a landing. |
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