The other nice thing is you could use the local AM radio for VFR
navigation into Podunk, and catch the hog report and find out what's on
sale at Burford's hardware too!!

Now of course it's useful to listen to ball games and give you a heads
up on the stadium TFR.

Mxsmanic wrote:
Matt Whiting writes:

That is pretty neat. Yes, I used 1490 in Wellsboro for practice at N38.
It isn't exctly aligned with the runway, but is close and we made up a
little home-made approach for practice. It worked well.

I think the NDB concept was deliberately designed with this in mind,
so that ordinary radio stations could be used for emergency navigation
in a pinch. The frequency range is the same as AM radio, and I hardly
think that a coincidence.

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