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Old December 14th 04, 04:49 AM
Casey Wilson
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How can I enter a user waypoint in the form of radial and distance? For
example: 10 NM from XYZ(VOR) on the 265 radial. Sure, I can use the
rubber-band feature and drag a waypoint to that approximate position but I'm
looking for something a little more positive. In DUATS you identify it on
the route list as XYZ010R265, or something like that.


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Old December 14th 04, 02:50 PM
Brien K. Meehan
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Can't.

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Old December 14th 04, 07:51 PM
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"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
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How can I enter a user waypoint in the form of radial and distance? For
example: 10 NM from XYZ(VOR) on the 265 radial. Sure, I can use the
rubber-band feature and drag a waypoint to that approximate position but
I'm looking for something a little more positive. In DUATS you identify
it on the route list as XYZ010R265, or something like that.


Casey,

Have you looked at the Golden Eagle/Cirrus software at all?

You can make custom waypoints and it has a "measuring tape" function that
will show you distance and degrees true from one point to another. This
would let you find your point 10nm on the 265 radial and drop a point there
that you can then name.

Jay Beckman
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Chandler, AZ


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Old December 14th 04, 09:10 PM
Dean Wilkinson
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AirPlan Lite (freeware demo) will allow you to create user waypoints based
on radial and distance from a navaid...

http://www.razorsedgesoft.com/airplan/index.htm

"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
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How can I enter a user waypoint in the form of radial and distance? For
example: 10 NM from XYZ(VOR) on the 265 radial. Sure, I can use the
rubber-band feature and drag a waypoint to that approximate position but

I'm
looking for something a little more positive. In DUATS you identify it on
the route list as XYZ010R265, or something like that.




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Old December 14th 04, 11:16 PM
Casey Wilson
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Dean, thanks, but I'm not interested in another software package at any
price. I've been using DUATS with CIrrus. It's free. And it will do more
than an adequate job. Right now I'm trying to solve a problem with AOPA
RTFP.


"Dean Wilkinson" wrote in message
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AirPlan Lite (freeware demo) will allow you to create user waypoints based
on radial and distance from a navaid...

http://www.razorsedgesoft.com/airplan/index.htm

"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
news:jptvd.4366$lZ6.4151@trnddc02...

How can I enter a user waypoint in the form of radial and distance? For
example: 10 NM from XYZ(VOR) on the 265 radial. Sure, I can use the
rubber-band feature and drag a waypoint to that approximate position but

I'm
looking for something a little more positive. In DUATS you identify it
on
the route list as XYZ010R265, or something like that.






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Old December 14th 04, 11:24 PM
Casey Wilson
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"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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Casey,

Have you looked at the Golden Eagle/Cirrus software at all?

You can make custom waypoints and it has a "measuring tape" function that
will show you distance and degrees true from one point to another. This
would let you find your point 10nm on the 265 radial and drop a point
there that you can then name.

Yes, Jay, I have (and use) Cirrus. Actually, you don't need the
so-called measuring tape. You can just enter the numbers and it will stick
the point in with great precision. All that aside, I'm trying to solve the
problem with AOPA RTFP.



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Old December 18th 04, 12:33 AM
aaronw
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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 03:49:35 GMT, "Casey Wilson"
wrote:


How can I enter a user waypoint in the form of radial and distance? For
example: 10 NM from XYZ(VOR) on the 265 radial. Sure, I can use the
rubber-band feature and drag a waypoint to that approximate position but I'm
looking for something a little more positive. In DUATS you identify it on
the route list as XYZ010R265, or something like that.


I tried asking the AOPA people at the last open house if you could put
in a route ... BAL V50 DCA V40 FDK etc etc whatever, and they said no,
the only way you could put in a route was the beginning and end, and
then via the rubber band method. It would be useful to be able to do
that to decipher some of the routings I see on this NG. You probably
can't do the above for the same reason they can't support what I
wanted it to do.

aw
 




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