martin734

Passed now, thank you. I just ignored the message until the plane stopped on the runway.

Do I just ignore the message telling me to turn to 170 then?

Hi, I have searched for an answer to this problem but can't find one. I am trying to pass my private checkride. I can pass all of the turns, but I can never enter the pattern to land. I get told to turn to 110 degrees and descend to 1300 feet. I am then told to turn to 170 degrees on the downwind leg. The message on screen says land on rwy 35 but nothing happens after that. If I try to turn onto the base leg, I am told to turn to heading 170 and I eventually run out of time. What am I doing wrong or missing please? my altitude is always correct at 1300 but I never get any further instruction. Many thanks, Martin.

I have solved the problem. The VOR beacon I was trying to navigate to was actually a TACAN beacon, that's why I was getting DME but no guidance. FSX for some reason classes TACAN the same as VOR. I have now learned the difference on the flight planner map.

Ok, it appears that for some reason I am not getting a VOR signal. I have double checked the frequency and the VOR is less than 30 miles away. I can see the distance to the VOR in the DME display, and this changes as I get closer to the VOR, but I get no Morse signal and the red NAV tab stays in the HSI. Is there a minimum height to receive a VOR signal? I typically fly at around 5000 feet on short flights of less than 300 miles, is this too low for VOR?

Thank you for the reply. I haven't turned audio on, would that make a difference to the autopilot? I did look at that thread you posted a link to but as the instruments on the Baron are different, I couldn't really understand it. Is it just that the autopilot on the Baron cannot fly VOR to VOR?

Hi, I am having trouble flying the FSX Baron VOR to VOR on autopilot. I have looked at various threads on here and on the FSX learning centre, I thought I was doing things right, but I just cannot get the autopilot to fly to the VOR. This is what I am doing; 1 Set VOR frequency into nav 1 & nav 2 radio and ADF 2 Set yellow Omnibearing selector needle in the HSI dial to the radial I want to fly. 3 Set Nav/GPS switch to Nav. 4 Take off and steer towards the VOR on the radial I want. 5 Turn on autopilot and select Nav. At this point everything looks ok but after a couple of minutes the aircraft is no longer heading towards the VOR, for some reason the autopilot simply won't fly the plane to the VOR, what am I doing wrong please? As I have said, the learning centre and the other threads here aren't much help to me, I don't seem to understand them correctly. I need a simple, straightforward step-by-step idiot's guide to VOR to VOR autopilot flying on the Baron, please help.