Geoffrey Barnes wrote:

All right, this makes sense to me. But as someone who is still a student, I
have to ask a question here. Let's say that I'm planning to fly along a
specific VOR radial, and that this radial is not part of an airway. What I
normally do is draw a line on the chart, and then read the radial on this
compass rose. But without the compass rose, how am I supposed to determine
the radial that I need to follow?

Work out the magnetic course with your plotter and fly that radial. Use pilotage
to adjust your course if necessary. One or two degrees inaccuracy in the VOR isn't
enough to cause any real navigation problems. To put it in perspective, if you
blindly follow a radial and the VOR is 2 degrees off, you will be less than half
a mile off course at the end of 20 miles.

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