Stupid Newbie Pattern Question

"A Lieberman" wrote in message
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Note, the following is my "observation", no statistical value....

I have noticed that VFR pilots do not use VOR's in their flight planning
BEYOND their destination.

If you would come in from the east side of the compass rose, and not "look
ahead" in your flight planning, you may not take notice that there is a
VOR out there.

Most VFR pilots, again, my opinion look for land references that they fly
over, and not beyond their destination. If you look on the sectional, one
huge land mark that overpowers any VOR is the reservoir. The transient
pilot will be focused on the reservoir and the airport position in
relationship to the reservoir, not the VOR.

So, most likely, the TRANSIENT VFR pilot won't pay any attention to what
is beyond his destination and won't realize there is a VOR NW of MBO.

May not be wise, but it is human nature. So, to report your position that
you are over the VOR MAY be useless to most transient VFR pilots (not all,
but most).


I don't think that follows at all. Even if you're right that most VFR
pilots don't look beyond their destination in planning their flights, that
doesn't prevent them from looking at their charts while in flight. If
they're approaching Campbell from the east and another aircraft calls
"Campbell traffic, Skylane 1234A over Jackson VORTAC inbound on VOR-A
approach, landing runway 35 Campbell" they should be able to quickly find
the VOR on their charts.



Whether you were WNW or NNW truely wouldn't make too much difference as
you most likely won't see me anyway in the haze or the "ground clutter".


The difference is 45 degrees. The more accurate your report the more likely
I am to see you everything else being equal.



The important thing would be the general direction and distance. Since
the
VOR is a "measured distance", I'd say the actual distance would not be
different then MY own perception.


Your perception of distance may be significantly different than reality.