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!