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Old July 12th 07, 09:56 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Ridge wrote:
I'm flying along VFR this morning happily tracking south on a radial towards
LDN.

Departure calls and tells me it's OK to begin my turn west to LDN.

That makes me wonder why he thinks LDN is to my west.

A quick check of my NAV frequency gives me the answer, I have it tuned to
CSN not LDN.


Good habit to always check the VOR ident. I know morse code so its
a no brainer but the 'dits' and 'dahs' are on the sectional.