martin734

I would say.....see what happens! What have you got to lose? Until I did that, they had me flying to Timbuk Tu with no more communications.

 

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

Once you are on the downwind leg, make your turn when appropriate, descend and lad on the runway. That's all there is to it. Don't wait for any more instructions....they ain't coming!

 

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?

I have never done VOR to VOR using the A/P, but my question would be...is your audio panel set to hear the NAV1 or NAV2 audio and do you hear the MORSE code coming from the VOR you are flying to? I guess what I'm getting to is "are you in range of the destination VOR"?

 

Maybe some help in this older topic!https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?305884-VOR-Auto-pilot-help/page2

 

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.