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![]() "Peter Duniho" wrote in message ... "Icebound" wrote in message ... [...] Never having flown a VOR course myself... I still doubt very much that any two pilots (OR auto-pilots), flying reciprocal headings between two VORs, would both be able to *simultaneously* hold a course to within 10 feet of the centre-line for the whole course, considering the receiver errors and that the VOR radial-signal *itself* probably varies more than that. I could be wrong. You are wrong. ![]() For two pilots to *intentionally* stay exactly on course center on a VOR airway would be challenging, granted. But the airway provides an "attractor" for airplanes, and inasmuch as the airplanes average toward the center of the airway, eventually a couple will come along flying the exact same distance from the actual airway (whether that's 0.0 miles off-center or 3.9 miles off-center). Accepted and agreed. "eventually". But in the GPS case, it is pretty much in "every" case that two aircraft using those two waypoints will be pretty much in the center. |
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