denverpilot
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It's nice having a VOT on the field.
180 TO the station and 108.2.
In my 182. Nice.
180 TO the station and 108.2.
In my 182. Nice.
Anyway I do all my VOR checks by comparing my two NAVs. I do one on practically every trip I take. (Whether I remember to log it is another matter though... )
Thank you. I have no idea why i can never remember which way it goes. I wish my CFII had mentioned that mnemonic. I did my instrument training in a 182 so it would have been easy to remember that.BTW, for those having trouble remembering which way it goes, Cessna makes a one eighty two, but they don't make a one eighty from.
While I like Ron's clever memory aid, another simple way to remember starts with knowing that VOR and VOT signals are based on radials and the 360/0 radial is the one you're on when the OBS is set to 360/0 and the direction flag shows from. This is something every PPL holder is supposed to know by heart. All you need from there is the notion that the zero radial is a far more rational choice for a test signal than the 180 radial (from an engineering perspective).\__[Ô]__/;938516 said:Thank you. I have no idea why i can never remember which way it goes. I wish my CFII had mentioned that mnemonic. I did my instrument training in a 182 so it would have been easy to remember that.
That's the way I reasoned it out when I first learned about it. But you do have to remember that the VOT puts out a signal on the 360 radial, not the 180.While I like Ron's clever memory aid, another simple way to remember starts with knowing that VOR and VOT signals are based on radials and the 360/0 radial is the one you're on when the OBS is set to 360/0 and the direction flag shows from.
Like I said, to an engineer that simply "makes sense".:wink2:That's the way I reasoned it out when I first learned about it. But you do have to remember that the VOT puts out a signal on the 360 radial, not the 180.