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Originally Posted by Carruthers
Thanks for your video, plthi. 
I know that the days of two VORs and an ADF are pretty much gone, but I was wondering what NAV fit you have.
Presumably a glass cockpit display with waypoints and all the other info needed in one place?
Do you still use paper charts of any description?
Hope you don't mind my asking! |
Not at all, ask away!
VOR's are becoming a thing of the past but they are still in use and will be for some time to come probably. They have decommissioned some around the US already, though.
The navigation setup that we have on the Hawkers is GPS, VOR, and NDB via our FMS (flight navigation system). It incorporates almost all fixes, be them VOR, NDB, or GPS HOWEVER not all of them are capable of certain navigational functions such as the newer LPV approach. This requires an upgrade to the system. An LPV is a newer approach that makes the older non-precision GPS approach which only has horizontal guidance to the runway and makes it like an ILS approach in which WAAS (wide area augmentation system - it's ground based and works with the satellites for pin point accuracy) is utilized and enables the system to give both horizontal AND vertical guidance to the runway.
The two Hawkers I fly both have the Collins systems installed on them but they are not identical by any means and this is because of the two different models of the FMS's. They both do the same thing, but they have different ways of going about doing them, kind of like a Samsung phone vs. an LG. It's annoying.
As you can see in the pics, I fly a mostly analog panel with some "glass". The flight instruments are glass while all the engine and fuel monitoring, environmental are older analog (or steam gauges). It's an older system, but it works fine and gets the job done.