Hey Jason! Old timer here. This Bearing Pointer thing is also called an RMI, or Radio Magnetic Indicator. I remember when IFR certified LORAN became a thing and guys who could afford the combination with an HSI were saying "GLORY BE" no more ADF needles. Of course all us CFII's were like, "but you don't understand the information your giving up". I believe the saying is "What's old is what's new again"! Preach brother.

Bearing pointers are fantastic for flying arcs. If the head is directly on your inside wing, your heading is a perfect tangent to the arc. If the head is above the wing, you're pointed inside the arc. If the head is below the wing, you're pointed outside the arc. You never have to "twist" anything and you always have a sense of what the wind is doing to you.

Thanks for covering what this old Army pilot believed was the best situational awareness navigation device, the ADF, because it always pointed to the station. Most of us didn't get our standard instrument authorization until after our Vietnam tour. And National Guard Huey's didn't get upgraded with VOR receivers until even later, so we flew a lot of Low Altitude Brown routes with ADF and flew lots of actual instrument NDB approaches. VOR, which does not point to the station (except the #2 needle on the RMI) is spooky. Most of us flew the VOR approach on the #2 needle rather than with the CDI. The ADF needle always falling is a new one to me as we used, "push the head or pull the tail." Pulling the tail made outbound from the LOM or NDB easier to conceptualize I think. Anyway, 400 hours actual in the Huey. Thanks again for the video.

Old school RMI. Another way of looking at it…You are the tail of the needle. Drag the tail where you want it. My G5’s: Single needle…VOR. Double needle…GPS waypoint.

Hey Jason, thanks for the tip. Right now, im grasping some of the concepts related to digital navigation tools. It's awsome to see this in a real-time scenario. Nice camera work to illustrate your point..

@TheFinerPoints

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! A lot more of that coming in the IFR Flight course on May 24

Before my students become children of the magenta line… I always make new IFR students fly the bearing pointers a bit before we launch into VOR GPS navigation. It builds a lot a of situational awareness becoming familiar with flying the needles. Make em hold, make up an approach for them. Great practice. Great topic

Thanks for the great video!

Nicely done. I have never seen someone do this with an electronic HSI/needles. Fun to refresh the neurons. One teeny-tiny nit to pic, homing is not a straight-line path to the station. Back in my instrument training days (late 70s / early 80s) with a fixed compass card, homing was frowned on. The expected technique was to fly a straight path to/from the station using the techniques you demonstrated here.

Great material. I remember flying NDB approaches when I trained for my Instrument rating. You mentioned the free monthly webinars that we can sign up for, and a link in the description, but I don't see a link for that. Can you provide this please? I would like to attend these.

I always live using bearing pointers, it makes it so much easier to visualize your position. I usually set the OBS to my intended track (Inbound or Outbound) and use the bearing pointer to determine how close I am to the intended intercept track..

Excellent video Jason thanks - I shall try it out next time I'm in the air!

and I thought I knew everything in the maze of the G1000....thanks Jason

Great video Jason. Thanks❤ for sharing

Interesting. Thanks for sharing

That was good. Pretty simple. Why is that not just part of PPL

In addition to just using the pointer, if you have distance to the station you're pointing at you can also do a point to point using it and get pretty darn close.

Great! As always. Thanx!

@TheFinerPoints

2 ай бұрын

Thank you too!

Hello Jason. Just wondered if you can tell me if your RayBan glasses are polarized or not. Thanks for your videos. 🙂

Hey, is there anywhere I could find a full version of the music you use in the intro segment?

Excellent presentation. Thanks

@TheFinerPoints

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Jason This is brilliant. I've always been confused by VOR My DFE had me close my eyes for ten minutes and find my way back to KJAQ without using GPS. I really wish I had known these tricks to simplify thinking about these gueypoints Do you ever test students like this? I felt like I really needed to step up my game, though, I did make it back to KJAQ and got my license to learn.

Now talk about using pointers with dme for point-to-point (or as Air Force calls it, fix-to-fix). Note with this, we’re always on the tail. Hence maybe you want to actually use tail when flying away.

Surely if you have 10 degrees left drift then you will need to have the needle 10 degrees left? ADFs are still quite prevalent in the UK with many airfields having NDB holds as the go-around on GPS (and occasionally ILS) approaches such as EGKA (Shoreham) and EGTE (Exeter).

What’s the artist and title of your theme music? I heard it (or something very close) on the radio one day and I thought of your channel!

Law of the Tail: Head Falls Tail Rises Interestingly, Paralleling the Desired Course is not needed. Navigating on an inbound bearing: Locate Desired Course move toward the Head of needle then go past the Head an equal amount to the Intercept Heading (D.H.I) Turn the aircraft to the Intercept Heading. Then wait for the Head to Fall to the Desired Course, turn on Course. Navigating on an outbound bearing: Locate the Tail then continue to the Desired Bearing continue an equal amount to an intercept Heading (T.D.I) Turn the aircraft to the Intercept Heading and wait for the tail to rise to the Desired Outbound Bearing, turn on course

@TheFinerPoints

16 күн бұрын

Yes, I agree with all that, however, I would employ the KISS principle to say let’s just choose one and always navigate off the head

PUSH the head, PULL the tail

heads fall like the French Revolution, tails rise like scared skunks. Push head, pull tail.

Alaska has more Ndb than vor.

@TheFinerPoints

2 ай бұрын

Awesome! This will help

@mannypuerta5086

2 ай бұрын

And more GPS than VOR, NDB, ILS. Onboard ADF? Removed 10# from the 185. Primary purpose for me was talk radio. Result? Blood pressure back to normal. I’m old school, but why carry 10# of uselessness? When I was with the airline, I used to tune in the Shemya beacon going to and from Asia even though we had GPS updated, triple INS. More redundancy…good. It was powerful and we could receive it for 100’s of miles. I lost two INS systems coming back from Tokyo one night and used that beacon as a backup. They decommissioned it years ago.🤨

Interesting exercise but I don’t think I’ll be employing it.

@christopherbordenave6955

2 ай бұрын

Why not?