On Apr 3, 9:10 am, "chris" wrote:
On Apr 3, 12:37 am, "Maxwell" wrote:



"Dylan Smith" wrote in message

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On 2007-04-02, chris wrote:
As I tried to point out, the stuff that is placarded is the stuff
that's optional. I am not trained to use a VOR, for instance, so
having it placarded inop doesn't make any difference to me. All the
things I actually need definitely work.

You can train yourself to use the VOR quite easily, it's very simple to
use, and is a useful navigational cross check even if you're strictly
VFR (or flying VFR direct, you can use cross radials as navigational
cross checks).

The pilot's license is after all a license to learn, and avionics should
not be left out of that learning!

You are right of coarse, but I don't think that was really his point.
Depending on the weather and your flight plan, a VOR is quite often totally
useless.

I dunno about other countries, but especially over the nastier parts
of NZ there aren't a whole lot of navaids, period. VOR's are nice for
making sure you are on track for one of the main centres airports, but
there's a lot of airfields around the place with no navaids, and even
going to one with a VOR, quite often high terrain and low weather
makes them useless for a VFR pilot


Back in the days of hand tunable multiband recievers I used to tune
in on the radio station 2ZB and fly to the strongest signal which
would put me near enough to Petone.