[color=blue][i][b]352 R (my answer is correct, isn't it?)[/b][/i][/color]
I wouldn't have thought so.
At 0336,
(a) what is your heading ?
(b) what is the track to the station ?
If you do get out to Dubbo please do pass my fondest regards onto young Dan.
Engineering specialist in aircraft performance and weight control.
I think I am missing something in here.
At 0336
(a) 105 degrees M
(b) 97 degrees M
[color=blue][i][b]I think I am missing something in here[/b][/i][/color]
If my guess is right, what you missed is an intended subtlety in the question. With flying, the catchcry is "appropriate attention to detail".
[color=blue][i][b]At 0336
(a) 105 degrees M[/b][/i][/color] - concur
[color=blue][i][b](b) 97 degrees M[/b][/i][/color] - now, you told us earlier that the outbound RNC track from Mudgee was 280M. So, what might be the inbound track RNC to (and at) Mudgee ? The CA is 4° so what is the required track to Mudgee ? and what is the ADF relative bearing ?
[i](Caveat - for the exams we do tend to get into precision that is not there in the real world so, at the end of the day, your answer, from a practical point of view, is fine. For the exam, though, I would expect it to be marked incorrect.)[/i]
Engineering specialist in aircraft performance and weight control.
MDG radial 280
minus closing angle of 4 degrees is 276
Reciprocal of 276 is 96 degrees Magnetic
HAT trick
105 +/- A = 96
351 R is the answer 🙂 ?
[color=blue][i][b]351 R is the answer 🙂 ?[/b][/i][/color]
That answer appeals.
There are two common approaches to IFR work - the first is continual orientation to a mental picture of the map story (which is the way I think) - and the other is to do all these mental sums (which tend to fatigue me greatly and I go to sleep - which probably is not good ?).
I think it through this way -
(a) at 0336 I note that I must have been asleep not to have noticed what the VOR was trying to tell me and I am 2 dots right - so I have a TE of 4° right (which just happens to be the CA also) and need to turn to the left to fix that.
(b) inbound RNC track is 100M so the track I require is 096M (ie the CA gets figured in)
(c) present heading is 105M
(d) difference is 9° to the left of present heading
(e) so the needle should be pointing 9° left of the nose - ie 351R
Just about as difficult as I need it to be in the cockpit .....
Engineering specialist in aircraft performance and weight control.
Thank you very much John!
Finally I am not worried b'couse I know I have bunch of great instructors who can help me out through this pandemic time. 🙂
