Ndb

[Flechas]

Just follow the head, that's where your bearing is if you parallel the ecourse, and then to intercept make sure the head of the needle goes past your relative north. When the head falls to the bearing, turn to it.

Flying outbound, parallel the course, and fly away from the needle untill the tail raises to your bearing.

To correct for wind, correction equals deflection.

 

[MTpilot]

Fun with NDB's

The best way that I have found to teach NDB's is to find a big room and make something into the NDB, the book on the table or the student or whatever, then you become the ADF and "fly around" using your arm as the needle and explaining your way through an approach or just an intercept. You will feel a little silly, but i had one guy who just never had any idea what I was talking about until i did this, after that he understood perfectly.

 

[paulsalem]

Always turn towards the head of the needle.

Sadly the FAA is looking to decommision 500 NDBs to make more money for WAAS approaches.

This and Piper Warriors with all glass cockpits=the dumbing down of instrument pilots.

 

[User546]

Sadly the FAA is looking to decommision 500 NDBs to make more money for WAAS approaches.

I thought the FAA had abandoned the development of WAAS approaches last year after having too many technological issues??

 

[paulsalem]

Never Heard that, its in the 2005 AIM.

I saw the letter they sent to our airport about decommishing the NDB. Luckly our NDB is privatly owned, so the NDB approach may go away, but the NDB will still be on. And I can still make my students fly the approach (VFR only).

 

[five-alive]

Always turn towards the head of the needle.

Sadly the FAA is looking to decommision 500 NDBs to make more money for WAAS approaches.

This and Piper Warriors with all glass cockpits=the dumbing down of instrument pilots.

The old-schoolers may fret, but this is a good thing IMHO. Most ADF recievers in GA aircraft are junk anyway. Plus fix-to-fix GPS approaches are simple, way more accurate and have lower minimums. I dont buy the "lost art" stuff...I say good riddance

 

[User546]

The NDB stations are not the problem, it's the NDB APPROACHES that should be done away with entirely.

I'd hate to see some NDB's go away, cause here in the midwest, they're your best source of navigating to a bunch of non-controlled airports!

 

[nosehair]

...aaaah, the ol' NDB (tear glistens under one eye)....I'm gonna miss'em. I've made many thousands of dollars just goin' round and round the old beacon, trying to explain to someone who has never had to imagine his or herself in space and how he or she relates in motion to a fixed point....aaah, well, it was the worst of times and the best of times....sorry to see her go, but go she will.

Yes, she was inaccurate, and had lots of faults, but it seemed that once I could imagine the relationship, my total awareness in time and space seemed to grow exponentially, and I seemed to be more of the master of my fate....

I hated doing math, in high school, but you know what?...I can do math in my head, now. Kids today cannot do math in their head because they are allowed to use calculators in school work. Wal-Mart cashiers cannot count change if the computer goes down...

 

[bafanguy]

The old-schoolers may fret, but this is a good thing IMHO.

Progress is vastly overrated. I say bring back the 4 course range approaches. Required nothing more than two letters of morse code and a vivid imagination.

 

[lowlycfi]

http://www.flighttrainingcoalition.com/How to teach (and fly) a (partial Panel) NDB Approach.htm