(Eric Ulmer) wrote in message om...

Given that you suspected the flight might turn into actual, did you
examine the
VOR checks done by other pilots in the last 30 days?

Good advice from the legal perspective...

rented a plane where the VOR check was done, but only on one radio,
the other radio was off by about 13' and determining location by
station cross-reference put me into a confusing quandry where my time
based location wasn't matching the VOR cross reference location.

Would it have been possible for you to check both OBS against
each other, either on the ground or once airborne? I also like
to turn 10 degrees each way and be sure I get full deflection.

A VOR check sometime in the last 30 days may be legally comforting,
but perhaps not as useful as knowing that both OBS are working
correctly for *this flight*.

I have had it happen that I did a VOT check on Weds, and on
Sun. discovered that the #2 OBS required 20 degrees to get a
full scale deflection. Something had frotzed.

Even when there isn't an authorized VOR checkpoint one can
often pick up a radial somewhere on the airport, or track
the localizer on takeoff or something.

It sounds like a nervewracking trip for you.

Sydney