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I assumed that to track a VOR with autopilot, you put the VOR frequency in NAV 1, activate it, and click the NAV button on the autopilot.  When I do this, the plane doesn't go to the VOR.  I'm thinking that I'm not doing everything I need to...

Umm.....which course do you want to track???
Obviously you gotta tell the autopilot which course you intend to track or else the autoflight system has no clue what you wants it to do.

I guess that's the confusing part for me...  ???  I'll go do the training thing... again.. hopefully I'll learn something that I missed last time!

You need to set it to what radial you want to track.  Very simply put you just intercept that radial out from the VOR and when the needle starts to move you turn the heading you want to track and then center the needle or let A/P do it.

...and you need to be in the general area of the radial you are trying to track.

Try this...>>>



Note the reference to dialling the VOR frequency, and rotating the dial on the instrument...

Pick the Cessna 152/172 to experiment with.. ...!

Cheers all...!

Paul.

That's an awesome diagram you have there!  Thanks a lot.

Agreed!, nice diagram showing radio functions. The key here, IMO, is to rotate the OBS until the course indicator needle centers -- then select NAV in the radio.
Bill
P.S. i have a VOR article here http://www.islandnet.com/~wji/vor.html for those who find it useful -- others may ignore

Or, try this for practice...

http://www.visi.com/~mim/nav