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I believe there are some VOR/DME receivers that still use a wire antenna to the tail (we had a few 172s at the flight school I went to with them).
I just remembered that we had some 172s at the flight school with the wire to the tail, and was trying to give a comparison.... I actually did realize they didn't have HF radios. I didn't mean they were for VORs. Sorry, I should have used a better descriptive term... I only remembered they were for a NAVigation purpose and not COMM.Last time I shot an NDB approach was about 6 months ago I guess. We have ADFs and have to demonstrate the approaches. NDB approaches are getting fewer and further between, but we still go into a place or two where an NDB approach is the only one (in Norvik it's an NDB-DME actually).Really though, with an RMI an NDB approach is a lot easier than with a fixed card ADF.
Quote from: Baradium on February 09, 2008, 12:58:46 AMI believe there are some VOR/DME receivers that still use a wire antenna to the tail (we had a few 172s at the flight school I went to with them).This is what my response was based on
Quote from: Baradium on February 16, 2008, 03:46:33 AMI just remembered that we had some 172s at the flight school with the wire to the tail, and was trying to give a comparison.... I actually did realize they didn't have HF radios. I didn't mean they were for VORs. Sorry, I should have used a better descriptive term... I only remembered they were for a NAVigation purpose and not COMM.Last time I shot an NDB approach was about 6 months ago I guess. We have ADFs and have to demonstrate the approaches. NDB approaches are getting fewer and further between, but we still go into a place or two where an NDB approach is the only one (in Norvik it's an NDB-DME actually).Really though, with an RMI an NDB approach is a lot easier than with a fixed card ADF.I agree on the RMI--even a rotatable ADF card helps but a GPS back up on an NDB is priceless for positional awareness