Homing verses Tracking

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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My pilotage skills never deteriorated to that extent, Roy. In VFR
conditions
I use eyeballs, and teach accordingly.

Bob

Actually, visually flying to a point in a crosswind is one of the
circumstances where homing can accidentally occur. Aiming straight for the
point is the same as centering the ADF needle.

John Bell

Actually, visually flying to a point in a crosswind is one of the
circumstances where homing can accidentally occur.


Yes, if you fly "to" a point. But if you line up two points, one of which is
the one you're flying to, and keep them lined up as you fly, then you are
tracking. Visually.

Jose

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"Bob Gardner" wrote:

My pilotage skills never deteriorated to that extent, Roy. In VFR conditions
I use eyeballs, and teach accordingly.


So you ignore the verification that all of your onboard instrumentation
can provide? That might be a fine method for teaching primary students
the concept of pilotage, but it seems a little foolish in practice.

Why would I not want to use all available information to verify that I
am where I think I am?



JKG

(Ed Williams) wrote in
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Curiously enough, my very first posting to Compuserve's AVSIG forum,
almost twenty years ago, was on exactly this subject, in response to a
discussion between Bob Dubner and Barry Schiff.

It's good to see you here, Ed. Your Aviation Formulary is one of the
treasures of the internet, IMO. I've used it many times. Thank you for
providing it.

Followups set to rec.aviation.ifr.

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Regards,

Stan

Stan Gosnell wrote:
(Ed Williams) wrote in
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Curiously enough, my very first posting to Compuserve's AVSIG forum,
almost twenty years ago, was on exactly this subject, in response to a
discussion between Bob Dubner and Barry Schiff.


It's good to see you here, Ed. Your Aviation Formulary is one of the
treasures of the internet, IMO. I've used it many times. Thank you for
providing it.

Followups set to rec.aviation.ifr.

I'll second that. Glad to know you lurk here, Ed.

Dave