Navigation Using a VOR 

Just wanted to chime in and say that your video is still helping aspiring pilots learn over a decade after you made it. Thanks a lot for sharing this

This is the BEST tutorial on VOR's I've seen

This makes you respect our aviation founders. They navigated without VOR and without navaids and identified where they were at by mountain tops, ranges and really put it all out there to hang in the sky. Imagine navigating a world war 1 biplane, over foreign terrain, with little more than a stick, a rudder, a compass and a paper chart? VORs are old in today’s world, but still a reliable backup to GPS equipment.

This is one of the BEST tutorial on VOR's on RU-vid! The radial you're on has nothing to do with our heading! Flying away FROM a VOR, you're on a RADIAL, Flying TO a VOR you're on BEARING to the VOR.

This is obviously the best video out of all the other ones that I had to file through to get here. I wouldn't even listen to that other noise, this is the video.

I had watched more than a dozen VOR videos and left me confused . This one cleared it all up . Congrats , you are the best !

Brilliantly clear with exceptionally good language. A rarity nowadays.

As a student pilot with about 10 hours so far, I found this video very helpful! Thanks for making it!!

You are a natural-born educator. Your enthusiasm is an added spur to the student.

Its nice to have a layman's knowledge of VOR. Thanks

The best VOR explanation I have watched.

Couldn't tell you how many night flights when a VOR has saved me from going to wrong bunch of lights. One cold winter night I was flying into Amarillo Tradewinds from Ok City and was determined that ATW was right where I was heading, but Amarillo VOR said no, and while I was still pretty determined that I knew better, I finally woke up and got back on that VOR radial and went directly to ATW. Moral here is to practice using VOR until it becomes automatic in your head.

Pretty good explanation. Couple of additions: 1. When tracking a VOR radial, to avoid confusion the course selected on the OBS should always be close to the heading shown on the compass. By "close" I mean 5-30 degrees difference. This will prevent setting the OBS 180 deg. off. 2. This discussion referred to turning towards the needle and when it centers then guess at a new heading. Don't guess! Here is how to determine what heading to fly that will KEEP the needle centered. Start with needle centered and the heading of the A/C the same as the setting on the OBS. When the needle gets off center, then: a)Turn towards the needle 20 deg. b)When the needle centers, remove 1/2 of the correction, which , in this case is 10 degrees. c) If the needle moves off center again, turn 10 degrees toward the needle. d) When the needle centers, remove 1/2 (5 degrees) of the correction just made. e)If the needle drifts off center again, turn 5 degrees towards the needle, f) When the needle centers, remove 1/2 the correction (2.5 deg). At this point, the needle can be held centered by adjusting the heading 2.5 digs left or right as needed. This method (I call it the "Half Angle Method") can be summarized as 1) Start with the needle centered, 2) When the needle drifts off center, turn towards it. 3) When the needle centers, remove 1/2 of the cut made to get the needle centered. Initial cut s/b be 20 deg., then 10 degrees, and finally 5 degrees. This works well and like said before, it takes about 5 minutes to determine the exact heading (+/- 2.5 degrees) that will hold the needs absolutely centered.

VOR Navigation is almost a bygone technology but it is still good to have a basic understanding in case something goes wrong with todays modern NAV equipment. It was almost never explained as well as this video has explained it. I still learned a couple things from watching this video.

Flight simulation has greatly helped me understand this topic. VORs are a piece of cake.

Best and clear after doing this for 6 months. Just great.

I sure wish they had this back in the 80's when I learned to fly! Students can get more information on youtube today than I did in the actual formal ground school course! Wonderful stuff!

By far the best and most helpful video on VORs! Just starting xc flights!

What a FANTASTIC explanation!! I have not seen a better or clearer explanation of Instrument Navigation than this video! EXTREMELY well done!!

I needed this when playing MS FS '98 when I was 13. today, i'm eagerly waiting for FS2020. what a great time to be alive :)

Excellent VOR How To Video - Your nomenclature was also spot. This is much better than others that claim to have the easiest method. Thank you

PP Checkride in one week...this is the best tutorial on YT. Thanks.

agreed this is the best VOR Tutorial I have seen, thank you, Peter

Absolutely GREAT video. I've spent so much time watching videos trying to understand VOR navigation with little luck. This video answered so many questions and gave me a much better understanding. Keep up the great work! Subscribed!

Thank you for making this so much easier to comprehend! I’m always overthinking VORs and you made it simple to understand!

This is an *OUTSTANDING* video!! Explains all the finer details of VORs very well. I've watched other videos on VORs and while they did a good job of explaining, in general, this is the one that did it for me. This was especially true of how the *"bracketing"* technique of "micro adjusting" for wind etc. was explained. Now I know how to "fine tune" that aspect of VOR navigation. Also important details on accuracy of VORs, how the CDI deflects while you're over it etc. are things that were missing in other videos, and exactly what I was hoping to understand!!

I was having trouble passing VOR lesson in FSX until I found this video. Thanks!

Best VOR tutorial. Really cleared things up.

Clearest explanation of VOR/DME yet. Thanks!

This is the best explanation I have seen for understanding VOR navigation. I especially liked the visual example around 3:25 with the CDI. Excellent job-thanks

This is very well explained. Good job. Understood everything. Been an aircraft mechanic for many years but really didn't comprehend all of this. Your video made it easy.

this is the most comprehensive explanation i have heard to date. thank you.

New Subsciber. .....great explanation of VOR navigation. ....wish I had you around in 1991 when I was doing my flight training.....unfortunately glass cockpits tend to dumb down pilot skills such as using a VOR.....

This is the best video in VOR explanation I've seen so far, so clear to understand! Thank you very much

I watced many RU-vid videos that explains VOR navigation. I think this is the bes explanation ever.

Great Video Captain, Hi from Ghana.

BIG THANKS for detailed explanation.

He did do a very good job at expaining things.But it a lot you have to know when your trying to study to get your pilot license.It really helps a lot after class.

Best instructional watched to date. The whole vor thing had me confused until I watched this. Brilliant

Best explanation found until now.

Thanks for this. Best VOR tutorial I've found!

This is an excellent video. I clearly now understand a lot about VOR’s!

Very excellent coverage on VOR. Thanks.

Excellent video.....totally clears up VOR for me.

61 people's brains exploded after watching this video

Absolutely an excellent, informative presentation of a subject that can be difficult to understand.

I’m gonna have to watch this a few times but it’s a great help to a newbie 👍 Thanks for doing it 😊

Very good tutorial! Clearly spoken and understood. Excellent instructor.

Awesome tutorial, thank you very much!!

All that disliked video - Flies at 3,000 ft., pulls out Google maps, enter airport address, and follows road at 100 kts. Lmao

I just learnt this for my test. I honestly thought I would never understand it. But once it clicks, it clicks. I recommend that you get in the plane and just keep practicing. I also took a photo of the cockpit and took it home with me

This is informative video because of some clarification of instrument good one

100% agree. Holy crap this is a clean tutorial. Definitely the one I'll be recommending.

Great explanation. It makes a lot of sense (especially after watching it a second time)!

I appreciate the info in this video. I am relatively new to flying and this cleared up some of my questions, thanks so much.

This helped me so much, everything make sense now. I'm so stoked

Awesome! I finally get it. THANK YOU!

Thank you for an excellent tutorial. This video helped me to understand VOR.

Awesome video! Clear and concise. Definitely will be sending the link to my students.

*I know everybody is saying it, but this is THE best video on VORs I have ever watched. Man I wish I had seen this during my Private! Or even 2 months ago back in June 2020, when I first started my IFR training! Regardless, I'm glad to have found it, and will be recommending it to every student who needs help on VORs.....which is all of us, we all needed this.* 😂 Awesome video. thank you!

Great guide on VOR. Helped me so much for learning new things while flying MSFS 2020 :) Thanks !

Excellent video on VOR navigation, thanks for sharing this info.

Holy shit thank you so much, I was stuck on this for ages

I am still beggining to learn VOR navigation. It is a bit complicated but this video is really very comprehensible.

Thanks Rising Wings! Appreciate the explanation.

Thank you!!! The best explanation I've seen. Exactly what i was looking for. Awesome. Thanks again!!

Excellent toturial, i undertood everything.Now I'm ready to practice it in FSX and maybe one day in real life!

it was well presented and comprehensive. It is worth watching

Thanks so much! Very clear and concise.

the most confusing thing I learnt when I got my Pilot's Licence. I hated VOR . I understood it only after many mistakes getting back on course using it.

Great explanation. I was really confused after listening to my instructor try to explain this.

Great video! I hope you're keeping up the good work

I like using radio navigation with my flight sums, as it adds another layer of interest. I've used it so long, it's second nature to me, but recently wanted to refresh my knowledge. I've got a bit lazy and used to using GPS / ils landings? I googled VOR and came across your video tutorial. It is by far the best explanation I have ever seen or read on the subject, and I would recommend any beginner studying it.. Maybe a little extension on finding the VOR frequencies on the charts?? Excellent content. Regards from the UK.

this really helped me. straight forward and simple thanks

Really good video to under stand the VOR navigation

This actually made 100% sense so me. Thank you

This is super helpful. I couldn't unhesitant this using FAA material. Thank you!

Awesome! Pile my thanks on top of all the others. This takes all the mystery out of it!

this is an excellent vid' for a beginner like ME:) i was having trouble understanding the VOR concept,,, but now i get it. Thanks for posting this tutor,, it helped immensely.

Good and detailed explanation of the system, Thanks a lot Dear

thank you very much. could not been better.any kind of such explanation is highly appreciated. Keep the good work.

this video is a gem!

I've learned a lot from this tutorial. Thanks

Very good. Explained very well and made good sense.

Yes, and one good way to identify the VOR, you write done the code on your flight data sheet while flight planing so you dont get confused. For example 112.10 Mhz TSL VOR - ... .-.. (-)for tango (...) for sierra (.-..) for lima, so you write it like that preferably stacked and when you tune it you identify the code you've written.

amazing VOR toturial,great voice

Thanks! I might finally be able to take the test now.

Professional video !!! clear explanation, very useful to understand basics of VOR. Thank you sir all my respect ! Badar

Finally got it, thank you so much

Very useful! Helps with my homework of planning a cross country flight!

Very helpful video, thank you!

Thanks! Great explanation

Very nicely done!

Really well explained. Thank you.

Thank you sir, it was very teaching. PLease accept my appreciations for your time and the efforts.

Best explanation I've seen.

Awesome explanation, thanks.

I hope every tutorial can be simple and straight as this one

Man, this is a great tutorial!

I just knew RU-vid could be used for something good!