Hopefully maybe here I can get an answer to why on a lot-but  not all of VOR's don't grab the signal. Before I get hit on the basics  I do have a real license and have used vor's in real life,. Since I'm with FS2020 I'm into the DC'3 and Beech 18's  and completely done with the big jets. I'm not the only one who has notice this .Louis CYYC

6 minutes ago, louis8m said:

Hopefully maybe here I can get an answer to why on a lot-but  not all of VOR's don't grab the signal. Before I get hit on the basics  I do have a real license and have used vor's in real life,. Since I'm with FS2020 I'm into the DC'3 and Beech 18's  and completely done with the big jets. I'm not the only one who has notice this .Louis CYYC

Which VORs in particular? It is important to reference current charts, because many r/w VORs have been decommissioned in the past few years, or converted to DME only. This is a trend which will continue.

Edited January 15, 20242 yr by JRBarrett

Yes Jim, that's what wondering also, I'm gonna check with current charts like you say cause I do keep up to date . Was kinda hoping the old ones would still be active so we can fly these ol' clunkers .Flying VFR  in this sim ,there's no comparison.   I like to go vrf with Skyvector and I'm using those Vor's . and yes I use Simbrief and import the flight plan right in the GTN 750 and the same with the ATR . Right now I'm going from Sudbury Ont. CYBS to Timmins CYTS .  Skyvector gives the Vor's for both and the trip is short -about 120 miles, I fly by hand so I like to stay at about 100 to 200 miles the vor in Sudbury won't grab but the one in Timmins does but I haven't checked the real charts like you say yet .

This has been discussed before in other threads but I wonder if someone could offer all VOR's that existed in their heyday as an additional package. Technically it might be possible to export all vor's from an older version and create an addon scenery from it. I don't know whether that is a lot of work or not.

Edited January 15, 20242 yr by orchestra_nl

1 hour ago, louis8m said:

Yes Jim, that's what wondering also, I'm gonna check with current charts like you say cause I do keep up to date . Was kinda hoping the old ones would still be active so we can fly these ol' clunkers .Flying VFR  in this sim ,there's no comparison.   I like to go vrf with Skyvector and I'm using those Vor's . and yes I use Simbrief and import the flight plan right in the GTN 750 and the same with the ATR . Right now I'm going from Sudbury Ont. CYBS to Timmins CYTS .  Skyvector gives the Vor's for both and the trip is short -about 120 miles, I fly by hand so I like to stay at about 100 to 200 miles the vor in Sudbury won't grab but the one in Timmins does but I haven't checked the real charts like you say yet .

Looking at a current Jeppesen low altitude chart, there is no longer a VOR of any kind at Sudbury. There may have been one before, but is apparently gone now.

There is still a VOR at Timmins: “YTS” on 113.0

YSB as well as ZSB (Sudbuury NDB) were decommissioned Aug12, 2021 so that would explain part of it. 

Well I'll be darned, so now I know and not to rely on Skyvector, I seem to have pretty good luck with the NDB's which is surprising. I took my commercial training in Thunder Bay  CYQT ,vor works there but I'm on my way to Sioux Lookout CYXL and it won't work there but the NDB does. Thanks a lot  

 It was surprising when YNY was decommissioned a few years ago. A major VOR for airways between Vancouver and both Calgary and Edmonton. It had dozens of airways both high and low linked to it. Reduce ground based navaids and reduce the costs of operating and maintaining them I guess.