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Thank you for the response. I'm a little confused about one thing: wouldn't I be intercepting the victor airway westbound? If I take off from Runway 6 wouldn't I turn and intercept the airway coming from the east? I'm probably confused about something... Thank you!

Yeah, VFR. Also: on SkyVector where it says "Spd" does that mean IAS, TAS or GS? Thanks!

Hi guys, So I want to try to fly using VOR so I used SkyVector to create a flight plan but I realized I have a question or two. My flight plan is: KHQM -> HQM -> V27 -> AST -> KAST How would you guys go about flying this route? Say you have to takeoff from runway 06: do you fly directly over the HQM VOR or would you turn and intercept the V27 airway? Also, on the takeoff minimums page at KHQM for departing procedure it says: TAKEOFF MINIMUMS: Rwy 6, 600-2 or std. with a min. climb of 260' per NM to 600. DEPARTURE PROCEDURE: Rwy 6, climbing right turn heading 110°: Can someone explain to me what "600-2 or std" means? And if you were flying out in real life at what point would you turn right heading 110? Sorry for all of the questions and thanks for any help! I'd post pictures but alas I don't know. I saved a screenshot of my SkyVector but I can't figure out how to post it in the forum. Thank you.

Hello everyone, I am trying to do the PMDG Tutorial #1 and I am having a problem. During my FMC setup I am not getting matching values when compared to the tutorial. After setting up my route the two things that do not match are: ISA DEV for them says "32 degrees F 0 degrees C" while mine says "0 degrees F 0 degrees C". Then, on the LEGS page, their picture shows under ACT RTE - LEGS - I/S: (702) - 163/ - 702, then (INTC) - 219/ - 2711 while mine shows (702) - 250/ - 702 then INTC) - 250/ - 5000. Hope this makes sense. Can anyone decipher what I might be doing wrong? Thanks! And admittedly a lot of this is over my head right now, but I am following their instructions step by step.

Love it! Thanks! Two questions: What does SEA168R and TCM134R mean? I am looking at the SkyVector charts and I see where you get those numbers from. So it looks like the route takes you on a heading of 168 departing KSEA. What does the "R" mean? Is that for the runway? Like departing runway 16R (which has a heading of 163, so I assume you adjust sometime during climbout to get on the exact heading?) And then the other thing is about the NavLog. I have FSX compute the NavLog and I see you can create a flight plan with SkyVector as well. They also ask that you put in a ground speed. So is this ground speed for cruise altitude since for climbout and descent it can't possibly be that? Okay, I swear that's all I have to ask. lol

Thanks everyone. I have been doing a good amount of reading and I feel better about this topic BUT I do have one more question! So I've used a generated route from FSX, flying low altitude airways from KSEA to KPDX using a Cessna 172SP. So The plan has me go direct from KSEA to the SEA VOR, and then it says to fly to numerous waypoints on airway V495 (heading 169). So I take fof from KSEA and pass the SEA VOR (heading 199) and then turn to get on course for the airway. Now I should be flying a course of 169, right? How can I know without GPS that I am staying on course when flying on this airway? I guess because the next VOR, BTG, also has a heading of 169. So this means once I leave the SEA VOR I should tune to the BTG VOR which should therefore also align me with the airway? So my first waypoint on this flight path is CIDUG. It is 25.8 NM away from the SEA VOR. So how do I know when I'm passing over this waypoint? Is this done by calculation? I.e. distance between SEA VOR and CIDUG is 25.8 NM, at estimated 115 knots GS, with ETE being 0:13. So this means that if I'm flying at 115 true airspeed at a heading (course? still trying to wrap my head around some things) of 169 and thirteen minutes have elapsed then I should be passing over this waypoint, right? Also, the SEA VOR has an altitude of 635 feet at heading 199 at estimated ground speed of 115 knots. This means that I will most certainly be climbing out while passing this VOR. So therefore my true airspeed will most certainly be lower than 115 knots, right? So I need to factor this into my calculations? Sorry for all of the questions. I know you guys don't get paid to answer them!

Thanks for the responses guys. I feel a little better but I guess I have one more question to add: So say I take off from Medford flying to OED... is the route shown in my GPS/flight planner not the route I should be following? Isn't this like my "highway"? So if I'm not following that line exactly am I not off of the flight path? Wouldn't that cause trouble if you were flying on VATSIM? I guess basically getting from one VOR to VOR doesn't seem to be a problem, autopilot or no. But I feel like I'm doing something wrong not following the route/magenta line. Now that I've got the flying part down, finding out where the hell I am going/what I'm supposed to be doing is a challenge. Thanks again.

Hi everyone, I am just exasperated with confusion over some things, but I'll keep this hopefully simple: I am trying to learn VOR navigation, and one of the things I'm trying to understand is how the autopilot works with this type of navigation. I am using the default Cessna 172SP. I create a flight plan using VFR and VOR to VOR. My flight will start from KBOK and go to the first VOR, OED. Okay, so my NavLog tells me OED is at a heading of 051 with a frequency of 113.60. I load up the flight and dial this frequency into my active Nav1 radio and put a heading of 051 into my Nav1 gauge. Now this is where I am confused: what does the 'Nav' switch on the Cessna autopilot do exactly? When comparing with my GPS, I am not really flying very close to the magenta line unless I zoom out a lot. Is this switch supposed to follow our flight path? I don't want to use the GPS switch. Am I supposed to hand fly to a certain point? This is very confusing! I'm really trying to understand how this all works. Thanks!

For what it's worth I have Googled this and found no mention at all of this particular switch. Rather strange! Of course leaving it at it's default open position seems to work fine.

Hello everyone. I am new to the forums and flight simulation in general. Thanks for taking the time to check out my thread. I am trying to start up a default FSX Cessna 172SP from cold and dark. I have managed to do his successfully but I have one question: what is the purpose of the Fuel Control Switch and how does it differ from the Fuel Pump switch on the main panel? Also, should this be set to "Cut" or "Open" during shutdown? My cold and dark actually starts with it Open. Thank you very much for your help!