VOR Explained Simply | How VOR Works | IFR Training 

"It's not you, it's them" - as a PPL-student: THANK YOU for saying that!

I rejoined the avionics trade in the air force and its a second occupation for me, I did the training enough to pass to earn journeyman status but I've forgotten a lot about the systems that I work on. I just read the maintenance manual, and follow it to replace the box if required and carry out a functional as outlined in the maintenance procedure. This video is helping me brush up on the avionics systems in a huge way. Thank you!

This is an extremely helpful video, however, at roughly 8:30 when you're talking about the "cone of confusion" being 90 degrees off our selected heading this is actually known as the zone of ambiguity. The cone of confusion is when you are directly above the station. When you are directly above the station the reference signal and the sweeping signal are too close together to get an accurate to/from indication because it's constantly changing (FAA-H-8083-15B pg 257 of 371).

Your explanation is the one that's usually given. It has the advantages of being simple, intuitive, and easily understood. Unfortunately it's not the way VORs actually work. The real explanation is enough to warm the cockles of the hearts of all dyed-in-the-wool electronics geeks, especially RF geeks. Stripped to its essence, the reference signal is not pulsed, but is radiated continuously. The radial signal is not swept, but is also radiated continuously in all directions. By dint of some clever engineering in the antenna system, the phase of the radial signal changes as you move around the station. On the 360 radial, the difference in phase between the reference and radial signals is zero. Your receiver doesn't measure time differences but, rather, phase differences. The mathematics of this shows that there are actually an infinite number of radials, but there's no point in worrying about more than 360 of them. And then, you can go to Europe and talk about Doppler VORs, which are a whole 'nother story.

Thanks. Excellent graphics, even the simple task (but often omitted) of explaining the acronym VOR. You’ve got the perfect voice for an instructor. Calm, clear and just the right amount of inflection. Many thanks.

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I have never seen anyone have explained like this detailed. Great job.

That was a fantastic explanation for such a complex navigation concept. I was doing the flight training on VOR on MFS and I had no idea what they were talking about, this made is so much clear. Subscribed

Best video on YT about VOR's. Thanks!!

Thanks a lot ! I was really struggling with radio navigation but you made it very easy for me! thanks once again !

You are an incredible teacher.

Excellent as always! Thanks Dan!

This was by far the most concise and easy to understand explanation of how VORs operate, thanks!! :D

Super informative!! Thanks!

Think so much for these visuals

Started flying in 1971 and my instructor use to tell me a VOR station looked like an upside down ice cream cone. I depended on them greatly as we didn't have GPS, Foreflight or any other modern day navigational aids.

Thx m8, my ATPL exam will go easier now! Great work!

Great video

Very helpful.

Thank you for reminding me I am NOT the problem when it comes to VORs haha

GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE MAKE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HSI DME ADF.....

What’s the difference between the zone of ambiguity and the cone of confusion? I’m currently in instrument training and I thought the cone of confusion was reflected in the CDI needle quivering and not accurately reflecting the radial whereas the zone of ambiguity was absence of a flag because it couldn’t tell whether you were TO or FROM the VOR since you’re perpendicular to the selected radial. It’s ambiguous.

Thx a lot that was perfect

What is the point of the vertical dots if there is not a way to vertically align yourself?

So how does the aircraft/HSI/VHF receiver workout whether it is FROM or TO the tuned VOR radial? Is DME involved here? (as in the distance is either increasing or diminishing) or is it something to do with how the VOR signal is processed?

Love the way he explain things. I love it when the instructor when teaching something, they treat us (or me) like a total idiot, not literally, of course, We don't need any technical mumbo jumbo, fancy words to impress me, we just want to learn stuff in "English", you know what am saying? I took up electrical engineering in college, gave up on my third year as I had to slap myself silly to stay awake the entire time while in this boring classroom. You guys in school today, you don't know how good you got it. So if you managed to graduate high school or college before the internet, consider yourself a genius. Back in the day, the only help you get is either the library or a private tutor :)

which simulator are you using??

Some day the title will be “What WAS a VOR”

It’s funny when I was doing my training at SBY airport I wondered what that was and fair enough you used my airport 😂

You say that VOR isn’t user friendly, but I learned to fly before GPS was wide spread and I always found VOR to be very intuitive. Coupled with DME, I was able to always keep myself spatially oriented and visualise where I was on the chart

Who remembers Maxwell Smart and the chief sitting under the cone of confusion?

CORRECTION THE ROTATIONAL SIGNAL IS THE PHASED RF SIGNAL EQUAL IN FREQ TO THE OMNI SIGNAL IT IS IN PHASE WITH THE OMNI SIGNAL AT NORTH AND 90 DEGREES AT EAST 180 OUT AT SOUTH 270 OUT AT WEST ETC THE RX COMPARES PHASE RELATIONSHIPS THE OBS SHIFTS THE PHASE UNTIL BOTH ARE IN PHASE AND THE NEEDLE CENTERS .

I understood the basic but not fully. i gotta watch it again😅

Everyone should give thanks that they don’t have to use Consolan or LF/DF ranging.

my question about this type of equipment..how come most planes have upgraded their instruments, but things like VOR or NDB..why haven't they been upgraded...since this type of navigation is very very old..why is this?

An acronym within an acronym. This must have been designed by the military

Is anybody else struggling with VOR segment on king schools??

I couldn’t understand the last part with the “to” and “from”

Dude.

The Salisbury airport is not far from me.

They should remove the "DISLIKE" option from all your posts.

I am in a cone of confusion now..

Yeah. I used the dial phone. So am dated too.

Your explanation of how the VOR determines what radial the airplane is on is incorrect. The explanation you gave, unfortunately, is often taught in ground schools leading to many misunderstanding how the VOR actually determines the radial one is on. No information is often better than wrong information.

was everything clear until you began rotating and play with hemispheres.

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I've driven past one of those transmitters many times and never knew what it was! When I was a young child, I thought it was the nosecone of an ICBM! Very interesting to finally learn what that strange white structure is. Picture of what I saw from the road: i.imgur.com/1frj2FR.jpg