After a long time decided to try again some VOR navigation and was flying around EPSC (VOR: 114.75). At first I thought that MSFS2020 is maybe a little bit bugged, as I was clearly south of the Airport (knew it because of the cities I were flying over) and had the radial 320 selected on the OBS, but the instrument showed FROM instead of TO. After rechecking if I did everything right and understood the VOR instrument right, I restartet the flight and when I reselected the 114.75 Frequency I already got some weird feeling, that I maybe had 114,50 selected on the flight before... So.., with the correct frequency of 114,75 everything worked as it should, so I tried out 114.50 again to see if that was my error, at first I couldnt get a signal short above ground, but after about 3000 feet the instrument did indeed picked up an VOR signal from 114.50 and of course the radials dont match with the correct frequency of 114.75 at all.

So my real question now is: what is that frequency of 114.5 ? I checked every VOR around EPSC and non of them have this frequency, not even something similiar. And is this even realistic ? I have somehow doubts that in real life they would pick such similiar frequencies for VORs in the same area. Or is that a MSFS2020 thing ?

There is a VOR 75 miles away 114.55 LWB

Wonder if MFS models "line-of-sight" for non-doppler VOR stations ?

AFAIK none of the flight simulators available for desktop solutions have that feature ( ? )

@Rucki which plane are you flying? Can try to test it here...

34 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

There is a VOR 75 miles away 114.55 LWB

Will 114.55 be picked up if I selected 114.50 ? Also, isnt 75 nm much too far away for about 3000-4000 feet ? (or maybe even in general, although i read about some VORs  over the atlantic which got even longer distances to be picked up when it was the right weather constellation)

28 minutes ago, SuperKaro2014 said:

@Rucki which plane are you flying? Can try to test it here...

I was flying the standard Asobo Cessna 152

2 minutes ago, Rucki said:

Will 114.55 be picked up if I selected 114.50 ? Also, isnt 75 nm much too far away for about 3000-4000 feet ? (or maybe even in general, although i read about some VORs  over the atlantic which got even longer distances to be picked up when it was the right weather constellation)

I was flying the standard Asobo Cessna 152

That was the only VOR that was even close in frequency to where you were in MSFS. 

24 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

That was the only VOR that was even close in frequency to where you were in MSFS. 

Im just testing it, starting at EPSC I got about 1500 feet asl a signal from 114.55 and radial 233 shows TO which is in line with what SkyVector is showing me. Im surprised that we can pick up the signal from so far away. But I also put 114.50 on my second VOR and thats definetly a different one, the signal did not got picked up until 2500 feet asl. Im getting a TO for 114.50 on radial 136 or FROM at radial 316, approx over EPSC

 

EDIT: Just found it with the help from SkyVector, 114.5 CMP, its 41nm away. Are those distances realistic ?The german Wiki tells me that approx distances for VOR are TVOR 25nm @12.000 feet, LVOR [email protected] feet and HVOR [email protected] feet.

Edited February 18, 20224 yr by Rucki

If you have LittleNavmap installed you can display the range rings for any navaid on the map. Quite handy.