Terminology ...

[beaky]

1st off, sorry if this is the wrong section for this, but this is based on the Oil Rigs in FS2004........


ok, im stupid.... what in Microsoft's Green World, is a Radial??? I know what a "radius" is as part of a circle... but I wanted to try to find all the default hidden oil rigs, but i can never figure out what the hell a Radial is......

1st rig:: Fly from Armstrong International (KMSY) to the Leeville VOR (LEV) frequency 113.50 and then turn and fly the 103 FROM radial to reach your first oil rig platform at 18.8 DME

2nd rig:: Take off from Rig Alpha (KR01) and fly a heading of 270. Intercept the 164 Radial FROM Leeville VOR and fly to a DME of 31.4



no offense, but why not just say... "Take off from Rig Alpha (KR01) and fly a heading of 270 for 20nm {2 minutes} then turn to heading 345 for 10nm {1 minute}??????

Did i miss one of the "before you fly Tutorials" or something??? not everyone is a REAL LIFE PILOT!

Back to OP:

[olderndirt]

Sounds like we mostly have the basics.

[-Crossfire-]

[quote]And the fact that you can get to the VOR (how come we're not calling them VORTAC - they all seem to have DME) tracking the FROM radial.

[Brett_Henderson]

You know what's weird ?  I've been flying for well over 1500 hours.. countless different aircraft..  and I've only manipulated the controls on  TWO  aircraft over that time, that had working DMEs.

A Beech C90 (right seat only), and a Piper Saratoga..

:-?

[beaky]

I've been lucky, I guess...  I've flown a bunch of 172s with fairly trustwrthy DME.  It can be useful, even for VFR flights. Most common thing I've used it for, other than feeding my impatience approaching a station, is to create a waypoint on a radial, for a course change or whatever. Cool stuff.

[olderndirt]

Not sure what's the percentage of VOR's with TACAN but it used to be quite high.