How to use VORs

- This tutorial is to assist pilots in the correct way to make a VOR/DME approach via an arc into an attended aerodrome in Instrument Meteorological Conditions.

- Using a VOR to navigate is a basic pilot skill. Though you only rely 100% on radio navaids when flying IFR, even the basic private pilot certificate which allows only visual flying requires that you know basic VOR navigation techniques.

- This tutorial is to assist pilots in the correct way to make a NDB approach into an unattended aerodrome in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC).

- Mountain flying in FS2002 (and many other sims) offers a whole new set of challenges, as it does to real world pilots. It can be very rewarding, and the default scenery verges on the breathtaking in many areas, especially in the USA.

- This tutorial is written for the Microsoft default King Air, but since the FS2000 flight model for this makes it near enough unflyable, I strongly recommend downloading

- Short-field operations provide a challenge, both fun and rewarding, to flightsim pilots. Many of the world's premier vacation destinations, including the Caribbean, have airports with short runways. Yet, despite this, U.S. and international carriers operate in and out of there on a daily basis. There is no reason we can't do the same...

- Real-world pilots write and use flight plans, so for the most realistic flight simming, we flight simmers ought to use them, too. But official definitions of flight plans leave some flight simmers confused about their purpose and our needs to use them.

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