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Message started by lucatrader on Sep 15th, 2011 at 12:24am

Title: Re: follow an airway without fmc : it's possible
Post by CoolP on Sep 15th, 2011 at 2:28am
Sure, you just need charts showing you the airway and then you use the VORs which mostly define it with the route between two nearby stations.
Lou has posted some nice US charts and explanations where you could read all the radials and stations for example. You may also find a very good read here. http://skyvector.com/

As an example. http://skyvector.com/?ll=34.26626502913317,-119.05797359473009&chart=444&zoom=1
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9263/80549903.jpg

You can see the stations there, the name of the airways in between and you can read the radials you would have to follow to be on it.

So if you want to be on the J88, coming from the North, you may tune SAN MARCUS VOR 114.9 and set the Course to 103. If you track that radial after overflying the VOR (which is easy to find with the RMI), you'll be on that airway, inbound LOS ANGELES VOR 113.6 for 75nm.

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