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*Setting the heading bug on the bearing of the NDB once will not bring you there. The wind will blow you off course and you will see the bearing of the NDB drift slowly over the compass rose. If you bring the heading bug back each time you will have flown a long wide curve instead of a straight line. (image on wikipedia?) You should set the heading bug ''over'' the bearing of the NDB towards the wind direction so to compensate for the wind. It's a bit of a guess on how much that compensation should be. | *Setting the heading bug on the bearing of the NDB once will not bring you there. The wind will blow you off course and you will see the bearing of the NDB drift slowly over the compass rose. If you bring the heading bug back each time you will have flown a long wide curve instead of a straight line. (image on wikipedia?) You should set the heading bug ''over'' the bearing of the NDB towards the wind direction so to compensate for the wind. It's a bit of a guess on how much that compensation should be. | ||
====Go in between==== | ====Go in between==== | ||
On maps you will find '''fixes'''. A fix is a place that is crossed by two or more ''easy'' radials from a VOR or bearings from a NDB. Typically the ''easy'' bearings are 45 degrees intervals on a compass rose, but you will find plenty of fixes that use other intervals. It's a bit of guessing what beacons should used for a fix but | On maps you will find '''fixes'''. A fix is a place that is crossed by two or more ''easy'' radials from a VOR or bearings from a NDB. Typically the ''easy'' bearings are 45 degrees intervals on a compass rose, but you will find plenty of fixes that use other intervals. It's a bit of guessing what beacons should used for a fix but it can assumem the two nearest ones. Navigating Fix to Fix is not practical. In between navigation is only done for approach or to identify a place where to change course (to start an approach). | ||
===Planning=== | ===Planning=== | ||