GPS Tricks for VOR Clearances

Handling clearances with that panel mount GPS is a snap — until they throw some rogue radial off a VOR into the mix. IFR magazine editor Jeff Van West unlocks the insider techniques that make clearances like this just another day plying the airways.

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• GPS
• IFR
• GNS 430
• Garmin GPS
• aviation
• aircraft
• airplane
• VOR. clearances

[TheLegoKid2001]

These are great vids! Keep them coming!

[4fifty8]

@drumdude46 it will provide a direct line from your current position to the waypoint you selected "direct to" only if you press the "direct to" button once and then hit enter to accept. if you hit "direct to" twice while highlighting the waypoint in a flight plan, it will activate the leg that goes to the highlighted waypoint... ie: it will setup a magenta line between the highlighted waypoint and the previous waypoint.

[drumdude46]

Confusion: your "Second" option of Opening Flight Plan page, cursor to the Waypoint you want to "go direct to", and Pressing the DIR key, Twice. we then saw an Active Magenta line from SEA Vor (V2) to YKM. which confused me...the second you press DIR TO", doesn't the GPS then provide a "magenta line" Active, DIRECT from YOUR PRESENT POSITION, clearing anything before it, and isn't gonna know or Paste a route line matching the V2, 106 radial. we're you already at intercept, crossing it then?

[EstebanCRC]

lol... i try to use it on FSX and crash in to a montain! XD

[HydroTitanic]

Lol. I used it on FSX.

[mrunning10]

@2live2fly Its possible I need to go back to my books; but a heading and altitude is the method of compliance. What's an "illegal waypoint" if I am cleared on an IFR flight plan, have my clearance, and am given a clearance from a point in space to another point in space? ATC will NEVER vector me into an obstruction. The WPT created does not change the aircraft heading or altitude or anticipated ATC cleared aircraft flight path

[2live2fly]

@mrunning10 When ATC issues an IFR clearance, they do not dictate the method of compliance. The pilot is responsible to accept or refuse IFR clearances. If the pilot is not GPS-knowledgeable enough to comply with this type of clearance without creating an illegal waypoint for IFR flight and has forgotten how to use VOR, then the pilot must refuse the clearance. If ATC wanted the pilot to fly to an unpublished waypoint, they would state the lat and long of that waypoint. It's unlikely to happen

[mrunning10]

@2live2fly If ATC issues the IFR clearance then is it not safe and legal?

[mrunning10]

funny, I can't find "dial up the 200 radial" in OBS mode in the manual; it appears you do this from the Map page in the Nav group; but what buttons are pushed?

[MetaView7]

more please