I've been waiting for this tutorial , NBD is an old navigation system,but it's a challenge when you add adverse weather, i wonder how pilot used it when they had a fixed card ADF mixe with wind ,thanks a lot Captain for making Fs more enjoyable.
@mishmish1968, as always, thanks for your continued support of the channel. I'm glad you continue to enjoy the content. Believe it or not, NDB's were a major upgrade from the systems that preceeded them - but the disdain for them grew as things like VOR's and ILS approaches became more commonplace. Still, they were an inexpensive way to get an instrument approach at a relatively small airport back in the day - and if you learn to get good situational awareness by using an NDB, you will have superior SA with any other type of navigational system (and you'll likely find any other type of navigational system easy to use.) Thanks for watching!
NDB beacons are all but gone in the USA. I used to fly commercial from out of KMMU. It had an NDB for runway 5. It's gone, like all other NDBs I was familiar with. GPS / RNAV are more accurate and easier to fly. NDB is much more reliable because it doesn't use GPS that is subject to electronic warfare, as we've seen in the Middle East during the first part of 2024.
@elirohnphd5613, NDB's are indeed becoming a rare breed - but there are still a few out there. There are quite a few in Alaska still, and a few still haning nearby the ATL metro area - and there are still 176 NDB approaches on the books. You can actually use the "nearest" function on the Garmin G1000, GNS 530 or GNS 430 to find one near where you're flying. That's probably the easiest way to find them nowadays. (Oh, the irony! 😄) Thanks for watching!
I've been waiting for this tutorial , NBD is an old navigation system,but it's a challenge when you add adverse weather, i wonder how pilot used it when they had a fixed card ADF mixe with wind ,thanks a lot Captain for making Fs more enjoyable.
@mishmish1968, as always, thanks for your continued support of the channel. I'm glad you continue to enjoy the content.
Believe it or not, NDB's were a major upgrade from the systems that preceeded them - but the disdain for them grew as things like VOR's and ILS approaches became more commonplace. Still, they were an inexpensive way to get an instrument approach at a relatively small airport back in the day - and if you learn to get good situational awareness by using an NDB, you will have superior SA with any other type of navigational system (and you'll likely find any other type of navigational system easy to use.)
Thanks for watching!
I didn't get why you choose 800 FPM descend rate. Can you please give some idea about that?
NDB beacons are all but gone in the USA. I used to fly commercial from out of KMMU. It had an NDB for runway 5. It's gone, like all other NDBs I was familiar with. GPS / RNAV are more accurate and easier to fly. NDB is much more reliable because it doesn't use GPS that is subject to electronic warfare, as we've seen in the Middle East during the first part of 2024.
@elirohnphd5613, NDB's are indeed becoming a rare breed - but there are still a few out there. There are quite a few in Alaska still, and a few still haning nearby the ATL metro area - and there are still 176 NDB approaches on the books.
You can actually use the "nearest" function on the Garmin G1000, GNS 530 or GNS 430 to find one near where you're flying. That's probably the easiest way to find them nowadays. (Oh, the irony! 😄)
Thanks for watching!