VOR

Question 1

Can you walk me through the compass headings for North, East, south & west

Answer 1

North = 000 or 360 East = 090 South = 180, West = 270. Anything between 000 - 090 is a North East heading, Anything 090 - 180 is a south east heading anything 180 - 270 is a south west heading, anything 270 - 360 is a northwest heading.

Question 2

Define Bearing

Answer 2

Your position from another object

Question 3

Heading vs bearing

Answer 3

has nothing to do with your bearing. you can have the same bearing but have a different heading

Question 4

VOR

Answer 4

Very high frequency radio. VOR give bearings to a from the station

Question 5

NAVID Radio

Answer 5

Where you tune in your VOR radio like your doing comms

Question 6

How does VOR work?

Answer 6

VOR broadcast radio signals all around the station, the radio signals are aligned with magnetic courses from the station. Those individual radio signals are called radials. There is 360 radials to match the 360 degrees on a compass.

Question 7

Where do VOR Radials broadcast from

Answer 7

They broadcast from the station. Bearings will be from the station

Question 8

How do you know which bearing to fly, if you want to fly to the station

Answer 8

To go to the station, you must go through the station. To the radial on the other side.