At 01:30 05 February 2005, Tony Verhulst wrote:
wrote:
This is exactly my point! Why don't we all already
know what makes an
aircraft turn? Many pilots feel they do, but if we
sit several
professional pilots down, separately, and ask them
how an aircraft
flies from a pilot's perspective, you'll get three
substantively
related, though specifically different answers.

Let me play 'devil's advocate' for a minute. A friend
of mine was taking
power lessons and the CFI asked how a VOR works. My
friend started to
explain the reference and rotating signals. The CFI
stopped him and said
'I see you're an engineer, now tell me how a VOR works'.
'You tune and
identify the frequency and set the radial on the OBS'.
'Right'.

Tony V.


Nope, that's how you work a VOR; he was right about
how a VOR works. Language is a funny tool.