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Manok Full Member Offline Posts: 118 Joined: Nov 15^th, 2008	Autopilot and VOR to VOR? Jun 7^th, 2012 at 8:26pm	Print Post
	Just curious, but I've been trying to figure out if it was possible to use the autopilot to fly VOR to VOR?


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Eric.M Full Member Offline Posts: 219 Location: Spokane,Washington Joined: Oct 22^nd, 2010 Gender:	Re: Autopilot and VOR to VOR? Reply #1 - Jun 7^th, 2012 at 8:34pm	Print Post
	of course, after you have engaged the Autopilot and selected the vor frequency that you are flying to. and on the heading indicator that has the course and heading needles on it, turn the course selector to the radial you want to track and your all set.


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Manok Full Member Offline Posts: 118 Joined: Nov 15^th, 2008	Re: Autopilot and VOR to VOR? Reply #2 - Jun 7^th, 2012 at 9:20pm	Print Post
	how do you set the radial on the 727?


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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12368 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Autopilot and VOR to VOR? Reply #3 - Jun 8^th, 2012 at 2:51am	Print Post
	Using the Course Selector knob on the HSI.

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VeryBumpy Full Member Offline Posts: 38 Location: Wisconsin Joined: Aug 7^th, 2013 Gender:	Re: Autopilot and VOR to VOR? Reply #4 - Oct 10^th, 2013 at 2:12am	Print Post
	Since I can't make my own thread (grrrrrrrrr)....... When tracking a radial towards a VOR, is it normal for the autopilot to veer the plane back and forth in a S pattern across the radial line? i.e. it never really seem to track perfectly straight.


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flibinite Full Member Offline Posts: 24 Joined: Aug 14^th, 2012	Re: Autopilot and VOR to VOR? Reply #5 - Oct 11^th, 2013 at 1:56am	Print Post
	No, not normal except when you're very close to the VOR. But I've had that happen to me as well. Try turning off winds, and manually fly the heading toward the VOR - get her stable - then engage autopilot, see if that makes a difference


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Markoz CS Team Offline Posts: 12368 Location: Victoria, Australia Joined: Apr 24^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Autopilot and VOR to VOR? Reply #6 - Oct 11^th, 2013 at 4:43am	Print Post
	Sometime the 727 does seem to have trouble tracking the VOR radial, yet at other times it will behave perfectly fine (until it gets very close to the VOR). I can't say if it's the wind affecting it or not (I never turn the wind off, and also use AS2012 real world weather a lot). IMO, I find it strange that people would buy a product like the CS 727 and ONLY fly it in Clear Weather!

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RobWilk Full Member Offline Posts: 30 Location: Calgary, Alberta Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2013	Re: Autopilot and VOR to VOR? Reply #7 - Oct 12^th, 2013 at 5:42pm	Print Post
	I've never actually tried it out of force of habit, as I've flown a few different types with the Collins FD-109 system (B727 being one) and the nav tracking mode wasn't very smooth. It would be constantly banking back and forth to the point that it got annoying, so we just tracked radials manually in heading mode. Maybe the S turning is just built in realism, intentional or not...


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