Calculating Distance Off Track using a VOR Radial & Distance

This is a tutorial showing how to calculate the distance off track using VOR radial course deviation and distance.
This will help you understand VOR indications and navigation principles like the 1 in 60 rule.
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[@astorp12345]

It’s funny no one seemed to catch that. Great video though. Thank you!

[@richavery66]

Thank you for this. I got the right answer with the wrong calculation - I saw that the aeroplane was 5 degrees off and approximately 60 nm away from the VOR station. However, instead of using the radial that the aircraft is flying along, I took the target radial and, as that is the adjacent side in the right-angled triangle, I multiplied 60 by the tangent of 5 degrees. This gave me 5.25 nm; at this distance and angle the answer was correct, but for greater values my calculation would have been way off... And that mistake was made sitting on the sofa, cup of coffee at hand - far easier to make such an error when flying the aeroplane, talking to ATC, looking out for traffic, etc!

[@Taylair]

It's not really something I'd be doing in the aircraft anyway to be honest... I suppose the Tan of the distance between the abeam point and the VOR would work but that information might not be readily available

[@mishmish1968]

Thanks for the informative videos you putting in the channel , it's very helpful.

[@Taylair]

My pleasure!

[@Aviationnerd857]

Great video!

[@lojzekiki8572]

You could also mentally calculate with the 1 in 60 rule: angle = H (lateral deviation) / S (distance in this case ~60NM) * 60. So you need to get H. And the result is also 5 :D