hello pilot friends, the magnetic declination is not good in the game, I follow the radial 241 of the vor 115.8 DPE to reach the LFOH aerodrome, and I find myself on the left of it?
I might be wrong, but however you look at it radial 241 is on the “left” (west) of the VOR. I you want to be on the “right” (east) you need to be on the 241-180=61 radial. Also consider there are two modes - to and from. Radials extend “from” the VOR. So your gauge needs to read 241 “to” if you want to be flying to it from the west on the 61 radial.
Magnetic declination has nothing to do with it. It’s mostly (except close to the poles) just a few degrees. Also radials are magnetic so they already take it into consideration.
Also wind doesn’t affect this in any way. It only affects where you need to point your nose to stay on the radial. Not where it is.
You can play around with it here: luizmonteiro - Online Simulators - VOR Simulator
I am on the radial from 241 to go to LFOH, I must not find myself 30 degrees to the left, I must fall on the aerodrome?
Hmm… OK. I might have misunderstood what you wrote. Try to fly over LPOH and check which radial you’re on.
Sorry for my english,I’m french ,try this and say me ,for me declination is not good
I am not having any issue with this VOR, I took off from the airport, climbed until I got a lock on the VOR. I captured the 61 radial very near the airport, not more than a mile from it. Make sure you have no magnetic drift by hitting the “D” key.
Hello French colleague,
I did check declination last year as I updated my Android VFR Map application to support Magnetic heading.
Asobo/MS made an update last year in order to have something more up-to-date.
In France the SIA is currently updating all is charts as the previous values were from 2015.
Every 5 years they update these value. In Le Havre the declination is around 0.6°E so it’s pretty insignificant we should ignore it because heading are rounded at + or - 1°.
From DPE to LFOH the radial is 241° so this is correct.
If you say you were 30° “left” you mean that you were on the 211° VOR’s radial ?
In plane VOR needle has 10° left or right maximum deviation : this is why I am asking.
This area is pretty windy so be carefull to read the VOR’s course (CRS) and not the magnetic’s heading indicator (HDG).
Regards
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no, I said 30 degrees to the left, that’s wrong, I was on the Qdr 241 degree of the vor de dpe but I was well shifted by at least 2 to 3 degrees to the left
Yeap.
Did the flight today from LFAE to LFOH via DPE.
After the departure I avoided the P33 zone and headed to DPE VOR’s vertical.
Then proceeded on the 241° course wich translated on a 246° heading because of strong right wind (around 296° 23KT) .
You could see the ground track on Little Nav Map on the screen shoot.
I ended south of the field by 1.4NM.
I should have ended above the runway following the 241°CRS.
These are cropped part of the above capture
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Maybe an answer to that is that the DPE VOR positioning is using an old magnetic variation in the SIM.
So that the VOR doesn’t point to the magnetic North but slightly off.
The latest document we have currently adverts the 241° but previously it could have been something different.
For the SIM, different information sources could lead to that.
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