Does the VOR on the Cessna 152 work?

[Plethora]

The standard Cessna 1152 - the one with the analogue gauges - I can tune a VOR frequency but turning the knob next to the VOR guages does nothing. How can you align a radial?

[Plethora]

Well, wherever or however the information is provided, I still think it's a big miss not to have the frequencies "available" somehow within the game.
What do you use for the charts, other than SkyVector?

[NicenJehr]

i use skyvector for VOR's and google "AIRPORTNAME approach charts" for ILS

[Maki Nishikino]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJy9XXV3zgI

https://www.aurora.nats.co.uk/htmlAIP/Publications/2020-09-10-AIRAC/html/index-en-GB.html

[Plethora]

Thankyou very much guys, I'l check those out :)

[Maki Nishikino]

You're welcome, glad to help!

[Spikenard]

Maki Nishikino eredeti hozzászólása:

That VOR seems to have been decommissioned in 2014. This is just another case of the VFR map showing it in MSFS but it's not there in real life anymore.

Right, but real life is irrelevant in this case. A lot of the data they're using in MSFS is 20 years out of date anyway. The video was removed so can't look at it. But the DCS VOR definitely shows as in the game and it has the correct 115.2 freq showing. If you can see it on the world map with the freqs (which you certainly can) then it should work. But you are correct in that it's not showing up tuning either VOR to it. Oddly enough I can hit Talla to the North and Turnberry to the northwest without problem so it's likely a bug in the game.
https://i.imgur.com/2a3HgdP.png

[Spikenard]

Another interesting tidbit is that it's there in the game. The frequency is correct. It's showing in the game as a VOR-DME I'm getting a DME range from it but no radial info. This is from approximately over ASLIB. I think I'm a bit to the right of it(don't have my controls hooked up right now so just loaded in and active paused). I can get Radial and DME from TLA and TRN. But if I tune DCS I only get DME range off the VOR.

Ignoring what's valid in real life, I'd file a bug report and point out that the VOR-DME shows in-game, in the correct location (you can even see it on the ground in the sat image not that it matters), with the correct frequency. But that it's only reporting DME info and no radial data.

Tuned to TRN and TLA https://i.imgur.com/6QBJRnB.png

Tuned to TRN and DCS https://i.imgur.com/RDXTe4a.png

I can pick up IOM as well but cannot pick-up LEE. Same result as DCS in that you get DME range info from it but no radial.

[Spikenard]

Horrgakx eredeti hozzászólása:

Well, wherever or however the information is provided, I still think it's a big miss not to have the frequencies "available" somehow within the game.
What do you use for the charts, other than SkyVector?

They're all in the game. If in an aircraft with a gps you can get them from there. If no GPS you can get them from the world map before the flight. NAV aids are turned off by default though on the world map. On the world map you need to open the filters (press F or click on Filters at the bottom) and scroll to the bottom of the list and change navaids to ON. It's hard to find them using the poor search feature though. What I do is open skyvector , right click over the navaid you want to find in game and copy the GPS coords showing in the list that comes up. Past those coords in the world map, click on the coords below where you pasted, and it'll zoom in and if you've set the filters, you'll see the VOR icon and the identifier. If you click on it you'll see the freq over in the list on the right.

Another interesting tidbit is it looks like the altitude for all of them is set to 0 ft which clearly isn't right. :)

[Maki Nishikino]

Spikenard eredeti hozzászólása:

Another interesting tidbit is that it's there in the game. The frequency is correct. It's showing in the game as a VOR-DME I'm getting a DME range from it but no radial info. This is from approximately over ASLIB. I think I'm a bit to the right of it(don't have my controls hooked up right now so just loaded in and active paused). I can get Radial and DME from TLA and TRN. But if I tune DCS I only get DME range off the VOR.

Ignoring what's valid in real life, I'd file a bug report and point out that the VOR-DME shows in-game, in the correct location (you can even see it on the ground in the sat image not that it matters), with the correct frequency. But that it's only reporting DME info and no radial data.

Tuned to TRN and TLA https://i.imgur.com/6QBJRnB.png

Tuned to TRN and DCS https://i.imgur.com/RDXTe4a.png

I can pick up IOM as well but cannot pick-up LEE. Same result as DCS in that you get DME range info from it but no radial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh5UaRWWdSM

https://imgur.com/a/W2YiKV2

FRM is shown as VOR-DME in MSFS, in reality it's just DME and that's the only information it provides in MSFS. Now why it's like that I don't know but they do need to fix it. What the MSFS map is showing you is wrong. What the actual charts show you and what actually happens in the sim is correct. There are undoubtedly loads of them like this, they need to fix the map, it's outdated.