MuseChaser
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I'm working through a course to prep me for taking the IR exam, and it's all going great.. pretty much ready..but the questions where they give you a couple CDI readings, frequencies, then a chart and ask you to describe where you are in relationship to a fix bug me. Not because I can't do them.. I get them right every time.. but because it takes me SO long to figure each question out. In an airplane, it'd be worthless because by the time I figured it out, I'd be a mile or two away from there.
To be clear, I understand how they work, and have been using VORs for navigation for years as a VFR-only pilot. There's just something about the difference between being given the readings and data first, rather than deciding to track a certain VOR, putting in the frequency, and tracking the radial that slows things down for me. I know the heading of the plane has nothing to do with it's location relative to a VOR, LOC, or fix, that the backcourse of a LOC is reverse-sensing, to check the TO-FROM indicator on the CDI... the basics I get. I'm just so slow at it.. and I'm not usually a slow guy. Any tips from any of you... or is it just a matter of keeping at it until my pea-brain can process the info faster?
To be clear, I understand how they work, and have been using VORs for navigation for years as a VFR-only pilot. There's just something about the difference between being given the readings and data first, rather than deciding to track a certain VOR, putting in the frequency, and tracking the radial that slows things down for me. I know the heading of the plane has nothing to do with it's location relative to a VOR, LOC, or fix, that the backcourse of a LOC is reverse-sensing, to check the TO-FROM indicator on the CDI... the basics I get. I'm just so slow at it.. and I'm not usually a slow guy. Any tips from any of you... or is it just a matter of keeping at it until my pea-brain can process the info faster?