Some more VOR navigation practice.

 

Enjoy.

Tongue-in-cheek question for you purists :-). I know there are some of you who do the aerocache hunts without the detector enabled. OK, so if the aerocache is a vortac, do you use the VOR? (Have to admit, I always use all the help I can get.)

:lol: VOR is always on the chart so just look at the chart.

 

I don't ever bother tuning the VOR radio or twisting the knob on the head. Too much trouble. :rolleyes:

 

Best regards.

Luis

If it's a VOR cache, I always tune the radio(s). After all, that's what the cache is about, learning VOR navigation. I learned it several decades ago, but it never hurts to refresh. Plus, it adds another small dimension to the hunt. Also, if I'm flying GA in FSX, I use the VOR's instead of the GPS since when I learned to fly there were no GPSR's available and VOR navigation was the norm.

 

But, it's all in what you like personally.

I went back into my vast picture archives to find this. Just more fantastic detail that most people would never even see. And what a view, I want to build a house there. Now, who would actually land and climb the hill to check this out. At least I think this is the VOR in question from what I remember.

 

Edit: I bad, just checked and this is NOT the correct VOR. I don't seem to have the Molokai Vortac yet. Guess I will have to go find it now.

I just landed at Port Hardy in Canada and there is nothing there, not even land! :rolleyes: But, there is the VOR object, the precise model that Steve shows, sitting in the water. I had flown there with the Mustang for its speed, but had to switch to the Icon to land. :lol:

 

Best regards,

Luis

Well, I did find the correct "Molokai Vortac" today. I collected it in the air and landed a couple miles away and made the climb. Took me some time to find it on the ground. It is well hidden in the trees. Funny thing, when I got back to the aircraft I found it floating about 6 feet in the air. I could walk under and around it. As I did so it kept moving around. When I entered it I just dropped to the ground. I cranked out full flapes and took off and flew back to the airport. Molakai airport is really well rendered. Complete with ground handeling equipment and a fire station. A sign of what "was" to come, no doubt.

 

So Luis, your trip to Canada sounds pretty bleak and wet. Was the VOR in operation?

 

Steve

I had collected this one a while back, but flew to it just for kicks. I found it without any trouble and then did a bit of sightseeing. On the way back is when I practiced my engine out drill. Much fun.

You know, Steve, I don't yet know if the VOR in Canada is operational. I was flying my flight plan in the Mustang because the Cub was taking too long, and I was so shocked when I arrived at Port Hardy and it was only water, no land class, no autogen, nothing. So, I had to switch to the Icon in order to land. Neither of those aircraft have IFR equipment.

 

When I go back to that flight, with final destination at Vancouver, I shall take off in the Icon, then switch to the Maule to check the VOR.

 

By the way, those are pretty funny pictures of the Cub floating in the air. :lol:

 

Best regards.

Luis