You WILL Understand VORs after Watching This! (PPL Lesson 37)

HOW TO USE VORs to Navigate! This explanation is so easy, that you will understand how to use them after watching! I explain the course deviation indicator, radials, bearing from the station, bearing to the station, and much more! This is Private Pilot Ground lesson 37! This training is intended to follow the aeronautical knowledge areas in Part 61.105 section b for single engine aircraft.

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[FUMax]

wow. i was sceptical of the title of this video. You will REALY understand VOR's after watching this. Thank you!!!

[babyboomer]

VOR saved my bacon on my private cross country in 1975. I was not listening or it just didn’t sink in when the flight weather station briefer told me my destination airport was two miles visibility with fog. That was the second leg on the trip. I blissfully took off and when I got near my destination I couldn’t find the airport cause of the fog. I took radials off of two VORs and when they crossed figured out where I was and where the airport was. Finally found it.

[paulstephen]

No one has simplified the VOR this well.
My heartfelt gratitude to you 👏👏👏👏

[brianlongman]

This was a fantastic lesson. I really liked how you put the audience “in the cockpit .” I never really understood VORs that well until now.

[sethchappell]

There should be WAY more stuff like this where you actually show the instrument working in real time, rather than someone just drawing what the instrument looks like at certain static points. Way way way more helpful.

[tburda]

Wow, I feel much more educated about VOR's now. I really struggled to understand them completely in one of the online schools, this is done VERY well! Thank you!

[nvcw]

During my flight training days, my instructor had me verify that I tuned to the proper VOR by listening to the audio Morse Code identifier and then matching the sound to the printed Morse Code elements on the chart. I told her that I confirmed it by ear already. She didn't believe me. I then informed her that I held an Amateur Extra Class Ham Radio license from the 80s, whereby I was required to demonstrate my ability to receive Morse Code at 20 WPM by ear and that I had my Ham license in my pocket if she needed proof. She just said "Oh...ok, then." Hehehe.

[jacquesparadis]

Great lesson! Well articulated, illustrated and demonstrated. An other good trick is: FROM top TO bottom. To find out on what radial you are on, rotate the OBS and when the needle centres if you have a FROM indication, you read your radial position on top of the indicator. Conversely, if you get a TO flag, you read your radial position from the bottom of the I indicator. Thanks for the video, well done!

[schen]

Thank you! My instructor told me it was his first time seeing a student learning VOR that fast! The best VOR video!!!

[ahetzel]

Quick tip for calculating the correct radial is the +2/-2 rule. Heading if 060 you add +2 to the first digit and -2 to the second, leaving the third completely alone which would give you a heading of 240. Easier than adding or subtraction 180°
Heading of 310, you -2/+2 giving you 130.

Learned this through another video so i cant take credit for this but i found it extremely helpful for quickly calculating an opposing heading

[garrettwilson]

Absolute best pilot instructional videos on the internet. Nailed it again. Thank you.

[kacperwysocki]

Thank you very much for posting this video, It really helped me. I'm a student pilot from Poland currently doing PPL license and your videos combined with few others are a great source of aviation knowledge and by this video I can say I've learned how to use VOR's thanks again.

[fast_richard]

Getting back to flying after about 25 years. Most of my ground school was 50 years ago. These videos are a nice little refresher.

[dougniles]

Ive wondered about these VORs for a while, and you taught it perfectly as I already have nav training from the military, this was very easy to understand in under 15 min.

[AAllday]

Thank you so much for this! In just a few minutes you turned this in to a VERY digestible concept!

[mechwarrior]

Dude I literally had never heard of a VOR before clicking on this video but you made me understand what it is and how to follow a course. Genuinely well done!

[-th_CAV]

Your video is one of the better, and more understandable, videos that explain the basics of how to use a VOR in the real world. When you were talking about how to identify a VOR station you mentioned that a pilot can “turn the sound on”. Actually, you would need to turn the squelch “off” and then turn the volume up enough to be able to hear the Morse code identifier. It is worth mentioning that if turn the squelch off and you don’t hear anything, assuming that the volume is turned up enough to hear it, that means that the station is unusable, possibly for maintenance reasons or the station is out-of-service at that time.

[TheBheavy]

Wow! You just cleared up my understanding of bearing in the first 10 seconds of the video!

[anikaklapp]

ive seen 10000 videos about VOR and never understood about the needle positioning… thank you for finally making me understand!!

[oliviah.]

Thank you for dragging me out of the depths of Kings school and making this understandable