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Mags: /* Basic exercise */

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Basic exercise

Mags: /* Suggested excercies */

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Suggested excercies

Mags: /* Basic excercise */

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Basic excercise

Mags den 25 juni 2022 kl. 19.24

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Knugen den 7 april 2021 kl. 13.42

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Knugen den 4 april 2021 kl. 11.48

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Knugen den 4 april 2021 kl. 11.42

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Knugen den 29 mars 2021 kl. 16.40

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Knugen den 29 mars 2021 kl. 16.39

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Knugen den 29 mars 2021 kl. 16.27

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 ===Basic exercise===
-The following route should be flown visually in clear weather at 3000 feet without steerpoints, tacan or moving map. You are not allowed to use the in-game map if it shows your current position. You will need to write down headings, approximate distances and landmarks.
+This exercise doesn't require many of the topics in this article. You just fly headings and look out the window.
 # Take-off Kutaisi

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-==Suggested excercies==
+==Suggested exercises==
-===Basic excercise===
+===Basic exercise===
 The following route should be flown visually in clear weather at 3000 feet without steerpoints, tacan or moving map. You are not allowed to use the in-game map if it shows your current position. You will need to write down headings, approximate distances and landmarks.

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 ===Basic excercise===
-The following route should be flown visually in clear weather at 3000 feet without steerpoints, tacan or moving map. You are not allowed to use the in-game map if it shows your current position. You will need to write down headings, approximate distances and landmarks to orient yourself from.
+The following route should be flown visually in clear weather at 3000 feet without steerpoints, tacan or moving map. You are not allowed to use the in-game map if it shows your current position. You will need to write down headings, approximate distances and landmarks.
-# Start Kutaisi
+# Take-off Kutaisi
 # Zugdidi city
 # Poti city

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 ==Resources==

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	3. If V = 317 and T = 00:45:30, what is S?		3. If V = 317 and T = 00:45:30, what is S?
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		+	Another method for calculating flight times is the speed factor method. If you're travelling at 60 knots, you're travelling 60 nautical miles per hour or 1 nautical mile per minute. This is also known as speed factor 1. 120 knots is speed factor 2 (2 NM/Minute), 600 knots is speed factor 10 (10 NM/Minute) and so on.

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 ''[[Home]] >> [[Aviation Guides]] >> [[VFR Navigation]]''
 VFR, or Visual Flight Rules, is flying & navigating by terrain, landmarks or other visual features outside the aircraft. This guide is intended to help new players with mastering this skill. The guide is divided into three parts - Navigation basics, Flight planning and Follow-up during flight. Flight planning is the planning performed before starting the flight, and follow-up covers methods for continuously verifying that you are where you are meant to be once underway.
 ==Navigation basics==

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	If the drift is noticed after passing the halfway point of your waypoint leg and the drift started early on, this method no longer works as you would end up back on track after passing your waypoint (by which point the track is likely to have changed). In these cases you will need to estimate an angle larger than your drift angle.		If the drift is noticed after passing the halfway point of your waypoint leg and the drift started early on, this method no longer works as you would end up back on track after passing your waypoint (by which point the track is likely to have changed). In these cases you will need to estimate an angle larger than your drift angle.
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		+	A more precise method comes via using the 1-in-60-rule again. For example, you're track is 40 nautical miles long. After flying for 15 NMI you notice that you are off-track and use the method outlined in the previous chapter to determine your off-track angle. In our example you find yourself 2 nautical miles north of the track.
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		+	First, calculate the angle off track:
		+	15*4 = 60
		+	2*4= 8
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		+	We're 8 degrees off track.
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		+	As the remaining track distance also forms a right triangle with our current position, we can use that to calculate how many degrees we need to turn in order to correct for the earlier drift.
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		+	As our total track was 40 NMI long and we've flown 15 when we discovered the drift, we've got 25 nautical miles left. Again we need to multiply this number so that is becomes 60. 25*X = 60 -> X= 25/60 = X = 0,416. We now divide both the track and the distance off track with this number. 25/0,416 = 60. 2/0.416 = 4,8
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		+	4,8 (round to 5) is in relation to the track, so if you add that to your desired track you should end up over your waypoint.

	Since the wind in DCS is static, i.e. it doesn't change once a mission has been started, the most common source of drift is poor and/or faulty planning. To avoid having math interfere with your flying always make sure that your wind correction angles are propely calculated during the planning phase.		Since the wind in DCS is static, i.e. it doesn't change once a mission has been started, the most common source of drift is poor and/or faulty planning. To avoid having math interfere with your flying always make sure that your wind correction angles are propely calculated during the planning phase.

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 Each degree is divided into 60 Arc minutes (designated ') and each arc minute is further divided into 60 arc seconds (designated "). A coordinate of N40°42'13" thus means North 40 degrees, 42 arc minutes & 13 arcseconds.
-Along a great circle (a circle along the earth that splits the planet into two equal parts, i.e. a circle that through the centre of the earth) one arc minute equals one nautical mile, or 1852 meters. One arc second thus represents, along a great circle, 30 meters (1852/60) or 98 feet. This is our accuracy when using this coordinate format, well within acceptable margins for VFR navigation.
+Along a great circle (a circle along the earth that splits the planet into two equal parts, i.e. a circle that passes through the centre of the earth. All meridians and the equator are great circles, but any latitude parallell to the equator is not) one arc minute equals one nautical mile, or 1852 meters. One arc second thus represents, along a great circle, 30 meters (1852/60) or 98 feet. This is our accuracy when using this coordinate format, well within acceptable margins for VFR navigation.
 ===Time, speed and distance calculations===

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 Normandy: +1°
 Syria: +5°
 ===Time, speed and distance calculations===

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	For example, if you're flying a waypoint leg in Caucasus with True Track = 360° and Variation is +6°, you should make fly a magnetic course 354° to compensate.		For example, if you're flying a waypoint leg in Caucasus with True Track = 360° and Variation is +6°, you should make fly a magnetic course 354° to compensate.
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		+	Magnetic variations for the current maps are:
		+	Caucasus: +6°
		+	Persian Gulf: +2°
		+	Normandy: +1°
		+	Syria: +5°

	===Time, speed and distance calculations===		===Time, speed and distance calculations===