"ndb? That Son Of A Bi**h!"

[The_Russian]

BEE BEEP BEEP.......

Maybe thats how my mind got warped.............................

 

[Pickle]

What Tony said

Rook said: "this is a question for pilots flying glass cockpits."

On the 757 we just use LNAV, and follow the pretty magenta line like TonyC said. Our 737-800s don't even have an RMI installed. The 757s do though. As far as turning up the volume, I always do that in the sim, the check airmen hate that!!

 

[TonyC]

Re: What Tony said

Rook said: "this is a question for pilots flying glass cockpits."

On the 757 we just use LNAV, and follow the pretty magenta line like TonyC said. Our 737-800s don't even have an RMI installed. The 757s do though. As far as turning up the volume, I always do that in the sim, the check airmen hate that!!

In the MD-11, if the Identifier is displayed, it's tuned and identified. I haven't listened to a Morse code in a looooooong time.

 

[UnstableAviator]

Re: NDB approaches

Tune and identify the station, and keep the ADF volume turned up! A very common error in NDB work is turning down the ADF - and, amazingly, the NDB going off the air.

I still wonder why ADFs manufactured after ~1955 don't have an "Off" flag. One would think that the same technology present in VOR receivers could make its way into the old school ADF.

 

[Rook]

Thanks for all the responses.
Rook(nursing some beers after getting kicked in the nads in ths sim)

600' AGL Autopilot on.
'WHEW!'

 

[Jmmccutc]

Hah, no it doesn't. I've watched it point as much as 20 degrees away from the station, this with an ADF that has been tested over and over again and proclaimed to be "as good as new".

thank you...someone else that agrees with me!!!!

 

[Pickle]

TonyC said: "In the MD-11, if the Identifier is displayed, it's tuned and identified. I haven't listened to a Morse code in a looooooong time."

Now you are just showing off.

 

[atldc9]

We don't have NDB/ADF's installed, not on our op's specs, not in the FOTM, not in my house. I will not shoot an NDB approach. I could not, should not. I won't.

That being said, like the MD 11, the 717 tunes and ID's the identifier magically. I forgot they even broadcast them.

Now turning up the marker beacons in the sim, THAT WILL pis* off the check airmen. 4 hours of beep- beep-beep.