I know that this must be buried somewhere in the learning centre, but I can't find it. I can't work out how to tune into a VOR station. I worked through the flight lessons but that passes over the actual process of tuning in and goes straight into navigating using them. I've experimented with the "radio stack", but I'm in the dark with it. How do you tune into a VOR station?

You click in the frequency on the "secondary" radio, and then click the center VFO switch to switch that as the"primary". With the left/right radios, the secondary isthe one on the right. The primary the one on the left.On the stacked radios like the lear 45, the lower is the secondary "blue", and the upper is the primary "white". Once it's tuned in, the OBI, or whatever should go live.MK

Check thishttp://www.navfltsm.addr.com/vor-nav.htmand thishttp://stoenworks.com/How%20to%20Fly%20Flight%20Sims.htmlMannyhttp://www.avsim.com/pages/1004/f1c172/2.%...dio%20stack.jpgIF you look at the average Radio stack...say in a Cessna 172. You would see the left side as the Comm radio and the right side as the NAV radio.Forget the top box for now.See the first row of radios.The first two numbers 122.950 (active) and 118.000 (Standby) This is for Communication Radio. See the first row of radios. the right two numbers 110.500 (active) and 110.300 (standby) Thats the NAV Radio that you are interested in.The second row of numbers. Forget about it for now. Its the same thing except and second set of Comm and Nav Radios.you are interested in the right side for Nav Radio. IF you turn the knob of the right side you would tune into the VOR station that you are interested in(Move your cursor near the outer knob till ou see a "+" or a "-" and inner knob for decimal numbers). But thats not enough. After you tune the radio, you have to make it active. You do that by pressing that white button "<->" It will flip flop the numbers. The stby will become active and the active will move to stnby. If you just press the "<->" in that NAV 1. you would see the 110.500 and 110.30 flip flop. Basically you have to tune the number in the "standby" before moving it to Active.Once your VOR station is tuned, you would turn the OBS knob to set your Radial for that VOR station.Hope that helps.MannyPS: Its interesting that you are struggling with this. I had the same problem 4 years ago. I didn't know how to tune into a VOR station in the sim (or for real for that matter).

Thanks guys for the very informative instruction. I too thought that the learning center dropped the ball on this one. There was never a clear how-to for nav, or else I overlooked it. Thanks again I think I can do it now too.System-- Gateway desktop FX400 Intel ® Pentium D CPU 2.80 GHZ 1512 ram Nvidea 6200 turbo cache 93.71 drivers Windows xp pro media center edition version2002 service pack 2

I had the very same problem about three years ago in FS2002. I was doing probably the same lesson as you, when Rod said, in his hypnotic voice, something like

By the way...good luck tuning in the VC. On the King Air you can easily tune the decimals but cannot tune the main frequency...at least I cannot find the clickspot.Mark.

>>>By the way...good luck tuning in the VC. On the King Air you>can easily tune the decimals but cannot tune the main>frequency...at least I cannot find the clickspot.>>>Mark.Again, something that is totally inadequately covered in the LC.Twiddle the knob for the decimals, Hover over the main frequency with the mouse and change it from there.Allcott

. . .also VOR (commonly "NAV") uses 107.90 - 117.95 MHz, and VHF radio ("COMM") uses 118.00 MHz to 156.00 MHz, so a quick glance at the frequency display will tell you what you're looking at.. As well - not all VHF/VOR selectors utilize a "standby-swap" system. I'm not 100% sure of the decimals, nowadays, as it's been thirty-odd years since I worked on them.Regards,

Thanks for all your help, especially Manny, I really appreciate that.I had changed the values but had no idea how to make the change active. I looked under navigation and even searched online but couldn't find an answer. It makes me wonder how many non-pilots with FS know how to use VOR, or how many have found out how through simple trial and error.Thanks again.

Click the arrow looking button ( <--> ) to swap the frequencies between the active / standby settings.

I'm flying from The Bahamas down to The Cayman Islands, and I'm tuned into CIENFUEGOS, VOR/DME high altitude, 112.30. At first I made the change and nothing happened, but I climbed to 5,500ft south of Nassau International and the VOR dial came alive. :)

>I'm flying from The Bahamas down to The Cayman Islands, and>I'm tuned into CIENFUEGOS, VOR/DME high altitude, 112.30. At>first I made the change and nothing happened, but I climbed to>5,500ft south of Nassau International and the VOR dial came>alive. :)Yup..VOR needs line of sight... So you need to be reasonably high.Standard Low Altitude Service VOR (Low Altitude (L) ). You need to be within 40 nm, below 18,000" above 1000" and no obstructions like mountains.High Altitude (H) 40nm altitiude 1000