If you have to fly to an intersection with both CDI at full scale
deflection, how would you get there? The left/right method will not help
you here, but it is trivial with the heading technique.




Jose wrote in
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All this mental rotation of the aircraft and figuring out position is
completely unnecessary.

I don't need to do it, I just used it for illustration. Needle points
to the station, you're not there yet.

All you have to do is glance at the CDI and see if
your heading is on the same side as the needle. If it is, you are
still headed toward the radial, you have not passed it. If not, you
have passed through it. Doesn't matter whether the radial number is
set at the top or bottom of the dial, it still works exactly the same
way.

Also nice.

For a localizer, set the OBS to the inbound course at the top and you
interpret it exactly the same way, whether on the front course or the
back course.

Nice for symmetry, but "a little left" is quicker than finding the
course on the dial for comparison, though it does make the back course
"not special".

Jose