>>1062742But does the analogy work?
Somehow placing all the components in more tangible physical terms feels like it'd make the whole thing more comprehensible.
(For reference, that's my first post on the topic of VORs.)
>>1062761I'm a different guy to the person asking the original question. I'm just trying to see if a workable metaphor can be assembled like that.
In terms of pic-related, on the left the plane is "flying over" Imaginary Runway 12/30 (brought into existence by the power of OBS), with the VOR station in the middle of the runway. On the right, the plane is "ploughing the grass" because it's not flying on the thing.
I'm too tired to remember exactly how it fits together, but that was the basic idea of the analogy. As I said, ridiculous, but if it holds imagining a big slab of numbered concrete is much less confusing.
(Maybe I'm thinking of radials, I'm correct to say once you pass the station you're outbound on 300, right? Which would maybe explain why the runway number helps keep that in mind, since once you fly over the "Middle of the runway" you're over "Runway 30", even if it's one physical Runway 30/12)
