How to fly a VOR Departure | VORs Made Easy

Let's look at a VOR departure, the Galena Eight SID at Fairbanks, Alaska, to see VORs in action in a procedure that's not an approach.

[stevekirk]

I may only be flying with simmulator software but this summer I have come to really appeciate navigating by VOR / DME - it really is effective and fun! Much of my simming in recent years has been in places without effective VOR so I'd lost touch with the techniques but your clear, concise videos have got me back on track - thank you. Years ago in simmulation I remember using NDB for navigation which I was OK with as I was used to navigating by map, compass and dead reckoning - whilst walking in wild areas not flying - but as I was taught by my Dad who was a navigator in the RAF in the Second World War there was a connection!

[aviatortrucker]

I miss the old days with the NDB approach. I guess if you have a digital HSI like the G5, then if it is equipped with bearing pointers, it is fun to navigate on a VOR using those pointers like the old RMI instead of an OBS. You know what radial you’re on instantaneously without having to turn any knobs. That makes DME ARC’s more fun!

[michaeld]

why did you set the Nenana VOR on nav 2 to "TO" instead of "FROM"? I thought since you're tracking the radial of 255 degrees then you have to set it as from?

[raccoonair]

Very well presented. The 20L/R departure would have been a bit more challenging; thanks for sharing.

[kylemccartney]

As a cfi, what would you recommend, I took the instrument test coming up on two years ago and got a 68. I am almost done my flight portion, but it’s been a while since I’ve flown, and have been in the books. Idk if I’ll be ready or done by December, so should I retake a ground school or practice tests then get a sign off?

[tanor]

Got me little confuse when he set to indictor on nav two at the beginning.

[Rodhern]

03:16 "Runway heading 021". If that is the case then please skip my comment below. Do you have a good resource to look up the magnetic heading of runway 02L? (technically 2L 🙂I guess).

I think the purpose of climb heading 038 is that it does *not* make it a turning departure (runway heading 023 plus 15 degrees). My guess is that the procedure by default will be designed to provide an additional 15 degrees of protected space (as compared to a genuinely straight out departure aligned with the runway center line). I would probably be comfortable starting my track correction towards the right at basically any point past the departure end of the runway. Do you have a particular reason in mind to delay the turn to 400 feet above?

[NLC]

Always enjoy your videos. Are you local to the DC area

[ViperDriver]

VOR and ILS approaches are more interesting than GPS? Thoughts?

[tanor]

I would love to take online course but i usually have lot of questions. Which i think video presentation alone seems not effective.