A-N navigation

[av8erjm]

Reading the posts about a big twins and some calling to the old days of radial engines, something jogged my memory about the A-N low frequency radio navigation. No I'm not old enough to have used it, but I remember during my early days of aviation, listening to the old guys talking about. So I guess my question is to anyones recollection has anyone tried to emulate that into the world of simming. I checked Avsim and Flightsim in their forums but couldn't find any mention

Blue Skies and Tail Winds Jim

[Jacques]

Hi Jim,
Try this over at DC-3 Airways

http://www.dc3airways.com/our_fleet/rad ... _range.htm

Not sure where that is going to take you, or how far. I think Robert41 on the A2A forums may have played around with this a bit.

[Paughco]

There are some folks who use it on DC3 Airways. I haven't looked into it that much, as I like to program the flight into my GPS and drive on, but here is a link to some Radio Range flights, including Ernie Gann's AN-21: http://dc3airways.com/flights/radio_ran ... _range.htm.

Here is some more stuff about radio range on the DC-3 Airways site: http://dc3airways.com/our_fleet/radio_r ... _range.htm. There's also a file that contains many radio range stations, but alas, it's for FS9.

Also, here are some nifty details concerning navigation using radio-range: http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ndb-nav-history.htm.

I think there's enough info there to satisfy your interest and get you back to your VORs and your GPS.

Seeya
ATB

[robert41]

The FS9 Radio Range radio gauge itself will not work in FSX. Adding the scenery will give FSX many more NDBs that will work as a standard NDB, but some do conflict with the default NDBs. Similar freq. close to each other. I have read some forum posts about making an FSX version, but nothing for sure yet.