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Final Approach
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Ben
Assuming you're flying behind a G1000:
You've loaded your flight plan, and have just departed using GPS as your primary navigation source. As you switch to Departure, before you are allowed to start tracking your flight plan, they'll be vectors for the climb. So, you follow those vectors.
Now, I will also have tuned in local VORs, especially if there is one on the airport. I understand some pilots don't bother, but here is where it might come in handy. Departure says "for now, join the 050 radial off the XYZ VOR." In this case, I ensure the CDI is also displaying the green needle for that VOR, and I can join the radial that way.
Now, here I have two choices: 1) I can display GPS and the green needle, but I believe I won't be able to twist the HSI since primary nav is GPS, or 2) I can display only the green needle for the VOR, and be able to twist.
What I would choose is simply to display both, and just join the radial. Once accomplishing that, the green needle will be pointing up. When the controller lets me resume own nav, I just go back to magenta.
Now, that's how I would do this; but I'm interested to see how YOU would. Maybe you have a more efficient way!
You've loaded your flight plan, and have just departed using GPS as your primary navigation source. As you switch to Departure, before you are allowed to start tracking your flight plan, they'll be vectors for the climb. So, you follow those vectors.
Now, I will also have tuned in local VORs, especially if there is one on the airport. I understand some pilots don't bother, but here is where it might come in handy. Departure says "for now, join the 050 radial off the XYZ VOR." In this case, I ensure the CDI is also displaying the green needle for that VOR, and I can join the radial that way.
Now, here I have two choices: 1) I can display GPS and the green needle, but I believe I won't be able to twist the HSI since primary nav is GPS, or 2) I can display only the green needle for the VOR, and be able to twist.
What I would choose is simply to display both, and just join the radial. Once accomplishing that, the green needle will be pointing up. When the controller lets me resume own nav, I just go back to magenta.
Now, that's how I would do this; but I'm interested to see how YOU would. Maybe you have a more efficient way!