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This page is a copy of a post I made on Frugalsworld quite a long time ago. It's also available on simtechnique in french and on Escadron 111 in spanish. There are two ways to pinpoint an exact location in F4 as far as airbases or airstrips are concerned: 1.
The airbase has a Tacan station collocated
- to fly to it you select the tacan channel and follow the bearing pointer
to the station. You'll end up overflying the airbase. - 046X
is th Tacan channel - you select it with the T-ILS button on the ICP and
then by entering the channel on the ICP scratchpad, see the SP manual
for further info. Now when you enter a tacan channel in the system, you have to use the HSI (Horizontal Situation Instrument) to navigate. That's the instrument below the body attitude.
First
switch the HSI on TCN mode using the HSI mode button on the left panel
of the instrument. it means the HSI will work according to the inputed
TCN. NAV mode means it works relative to the selected steerpoint.
With the HSI, you select a radial with the CRS knob. the value of the radial displays in the up right corner of the instrument. When a radial is selected, the CDI (the needle in the intrument centre) gives you your deviation relative to the radial.
In this example, you're flying a heading of 270 with radial 300 selected and the radial is on your left side. As 300 - 270 = 30 you have an attack angle on the radial of 30°. It means you are approaching the radial with a 30° angle. As you approach the radial, the deviation of the CDI will start to decrease until it's centred. At that point, it means you are on the radial. If you want to follow it, you have to turn to a heading of 300° and keep the radial centred. Now this
is a basic course on radio navigation because obviously, there are much
more concerns such as to TO/FROM indicator meaning if you're flying TO
the station or FROM the station. That information is given by the red
triangle on the instrument. More to come on that later.
2. The airbase or airstrip has no collocated tacan and then it's position is given by a radial from a known tacan in the vincinity and by a distance indication given by the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) which is in the up left corner of the instrument. The distance given is the distance in Nm between your actual position and the selected station. So in the tacan list you'll find: - 09/27
is runway orientation
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