Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:43 pm
#58325
A question for all you clever IMC and IR types.
Reading Thom, he says that RNAV will only give you lateral deviation from a course between 2 waypoints (which can be real or pseudo).
But I seem to recall someone telling me that his RNAV system will effectively allow a pseudo VOR/DME to replicate a real VOR/DME, with an angular deviation from a specified pseudo radial to the pseudo VOR/DME.
There is no reason why it shouldn't happen like that because the computer would know where you are, and it would only be a matter of arithmetic to give angular deviation from a specified radial. But does it?
On a related point, can the pseudo VOR/DME also give you a QDM, like an ADF?
And finally, if T BLiar finds a pseudo WMD in Iraq, will that let him off the real hook?
Reading Thom, he says that RNAV will only give you lateral deviation from a course between 2 waypoints (which can be real or pseudo).
But I seem to recall someone telling me that his RNAV system will effectively allow a pseudo VOR/DME to replicate a real VOR/DME, with an angular deviation from a specified pseudo radial to the pseudo VOR/DME.
There is no reason why it shouldn't happen like that because the computer would know where you are, and it would only be a matter of arithmetic to give angular deviation from a specified radial. But does it?
On a related point, can the pseudo VOR/DME also give you a QDM, like an ADF?
And finally, if T BLiar finds a pseudo WMD in Iraq, will that let him off the real hook?
Norman