er, no of course not

This thread is digressing now but it isn’t hog wash at all, 1st season or not, it’s irrelevant, yes the lad did well, yes I wanted him to win it and yes he’s good but face it, he’s was given the equipment to win the world championship which he failed to do, end of story

Regardless of how good a driver is the drivers standings don’t lie, the essence of a “great” driver & team is that of a driver & team that have that killer instinct that can deliver when the pressure is on, the bottom line is that he couldn’t deliver when it really mattered therefore he doesn’t deserve to win it.

It’s obvious why he’s moving, it’s nothing to do with being in the spotlight, it’s all to do with money, does he think we’re stupid?

Ian nice sig by the way

Dean

Welcome to the forum.

The Nav1 red/white flag indicates it isn’t receiving a signal, so either a) you have not got the correct frequency tuned or b) you are out of range of the beacon. I’d say the former would be more true, so check the frequency in your nav 1 radio box.

VOR nav takes a bit of explaining, I haven’t got the time to type out a comprehensive tutorial but let’s say the VOR is placed in London, and you (the plane) is placed over Bristol. Next let’s look at VORs, they have an infinite number of bearings emanating from the station but we are mainly interested in the cardinal points, those being North, South, East & West plus NE, SE, SW, NW.

Bristol [270°] <——————O London —————–> [090°]

Think of the VOR as a bicycle wheel with all the spokes coming out the centre, firstly in our example above we are to the west of the beacon, agree?
Right, if you take the “spoke” from the beacon that we are sat on then we are sat on the Westerly spoke, agree? good.
Now we can display this in the cockpit, if you rotate your OBS or Omni Bearing Selector to display 270° the needle should be centred because you are on this track, the TO/FROM flag should indicate “FROM”, because you have set 270° on the OBS, you are 270° from the beacon. Now remember this is not heading specific, by this I mean it does not matter at all what your heading is, the needle should stay centred provided you stay on this radial.

Next can we see that if we followed this 270° radial to the beacon by heading East eventually we will pass over the beacon? if we did this we would now be travelling along the 090° radial, agree? good.
The only thing that changes now is the TO/FROM flag, it will now indicate “TO” the beacon, simply because you have to fly “TO” the beacon to reestablish back on the 270° radial that you have set on the OBS.

With that out the way let’s look at something else, let’s assume we know a beacon’s frequency and we have tuned it in, we also know roughly where this beacon is, let’s assume it’s NE of our position. Firstly we can track directly to the beacon if we want from our position, to do this we would wind the OBS needle until we have the “TO” flag indicating, then continue to wind the OBS in 30° increments until the needle centres, as soon as it centres it should give you the bearing you are on by what is displayed at the top of the compass rose, agree? good. Now we need to turn our aircraft onto a heading that resembles this bearing, we can now track to the beacon by adjusting our heading for wind drift as necessary to keep the needle in the centre, again when you get to the beacon and pass over it the only thing that changes is the TO/FROM changes to FROM.

Another scenario could be that you want to track to the beacon on a certain radial, let’s assume it’s in the NE again from our position and we want to track the 040° radial, first thing we do is dial in 040° on the OBS, then turn and head 040°, then see where the needle is, if it’s off to the left then we have to fly left on an intercept heading to centre the needle, once centred turn back to the heading/track +/- wind to maintain it, and visa versa if it’s off to the right.

Clear as mud?

I hope it helped

Dean

Very good 😀

Symon

Basically it will be connected to a GPu if, and only if one is available at the airfield it is at, normally this would be DC power, our aircraft has the capability to be connected to AC power but you cannot start the engines with AC power as the TRUs aren’t powerful enough to turn the starter generators.
As for the APU no you don’t need a GPU connected to start the APU, basically if you enter a cold & dark cockpit the first thing you need is power, so as I said before you can achieve this in 1 of 3 ways, battery power, APU or a GPU, if you decide to use battery power then of course they are going to discharge, so this is a bad thing, this is why you would either start the APU straight away, and to do this you give it power (from the battery) then do the relevant fire test, then start it, once it comes online you can then run the APU generator which gives the aircraft power and charges the batteries. If you decide not to use the APU then you can use the GPU, the GPU supplies the aircraft with power in the same concept as the APU.
So in effect no you don’t need the GPU for the APU to run, they are both there to do the same job so you would use one or the other.
As soon as you have the engines running you can then use the engine DC generators to supply power and charge the batteries thus being in a position to disconnect the GPU or APU.
If Ground Power was unavailable and the APU won’t start (as it sometimes doesn’t) then you are left with the batteries to start the engines, so it’s best not to spend eons with everything switched on whilst you do your checks etc before you start the engines. If the battery voltage drops below a certain amount then you can’t use them for starting so it’s best you ask for start clearance sooner rather than later.

Clear as mud? thought so 🙂

Cracking pics Tom, love the 1st 2 especially.

Where are all the flybe aircraft? you were at BHX weren’t you? 😉

Superb Adam thanks for sharing, love the batch of Airbus 330s, also the Cathay 74 is stunning