I am new to flight simulators, and I have the MS fs-2000. I am confused with the VOR gages. Ther are two, upper and lower, and I don't know which one to use when. I appreciate and assistance you can give me. Please be patient, as I am a little handicapped and a slow learner. Thanks.

Adolph, Welcome and expect to lose whole days while you get to grips with all this simming stuff! We are all still learning, so you're in good company here!The choice of how you use each of the gauges is up to you, and can vary according to the needs of the moment. You can use them to provide a second reading of the same VOR, but that's a bit of a waste in FS as the gauges never fail and reception never varies according to signal strength or aerial position like in the real world. The only thing that really matters is that the autopilot is `slaved` to VOR1, so for Instrument Landings you need to have the VOR tuned to the frequency of the airport runway.What I tend to do is use the two together to provide a cross reference to position. Not really necessary with GPS, but its good old `airmanship` and a useful way of keeping yourself busy on those long flights. On a long cross country I might use the gauges to select the current and the next VOR that I'm using for navigating - I only navigate on the first VOR to avoid confusing things, but I set VOR2 to the next frequency I'm going to need. Then when the gauge goes `live` I can switch the frequency to the first VOR and navigate from there, sort of like a stepping stone. You can also use the VOR to track a course AWAY from the VOR, in the direction of another which is currently out of range. I tend to use VOR2 only for navigating away from a VOR, rather than towards one, but you have to use the HDG bug on the autopilot to manage the course as VOR2 can't be slaved to the autopilot, as I said.Hope this helps, but try this site for excellent general advice:http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/index.htmI also recommend you see if you have any other experienced simmers in your area - it is very confusing to explain things when just seeing it working could have you say "I get it!"Allcott

NAV1 is also linked to the autopilot. If you select NAV for the autopilot it will track and approach to the VOR associated with NAV1 on the set heading of NAV1.

Thank you for you help. I think that the navfltsm site will be very helpful.

Thank you. I can use all the help I can get.