MSFS: VOR Navigation Basics in the Cessna 152 - Microsoft Flight Simulator

Here's a newer (2022), full-flight video I made using VOR navigation: https://youtu.be/uRLc7WiaxwE

This tutorial needs more attention on Youtube, excellent delivery, easy to follow and not filled with extraneous information

When I learned to fly (When Pontius was a pilate!!) actually in the mid 1960's, our initial instrument training was with an ADF and NDB beacons. This was quite a challenge at first but very pleasurable when mastered. Moving up to VOR especially when combined with DME was a god send, it was so easy providing you could understand TO and FROM and a 360 deg. compass rose. My first privately owned aircraft was a Grumman AA5B and I had it fitted with a King KNS80 which allowed you to move a VOR to almost any location, fantastic at the time. I recall also being able to make my first instrument approach using a VOR DME. However after a 40 year flying career and having used just about every navigation system available both military and civil, my favorite is still the mark I eyeball and a chart. A little difficult when crossing the Atlantic of course, there aren't too many waves on the chart!! But is extremely important to understand the limitations of any system and paramount to keep a mental picture of your current position should any system fail.

Quick tip: hold ALT when you rotate the OBS knob to increment it in a single degree.

My whole family is teachers and I was in high school for 7 years so I know a thing or two about education. You're an expert educator. Cheers, pal.

I feel like the youngsters watching this are missing out on just how revolutionary this low-tech navigation tool was. If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, all you knew of the world in Microsoft Flight simulator was doing loops around Meigs Field. Maybe you'd do a short hop from there to Chicago O'Hare if you were feeling adventurous. But learning VOR was like earning your flight simulation black belt: it was the moment you dug the manual back out, found the map of VOR transmitters and frequencies, and realized you could theoretically go anywhere. Now nearly everything in the game comes with a simulated Garmin, and flying a simulated plane between airports is only slightly more complicated than using your phone to navigate your car to an airport's departures terminal in real life.

Man, as an IRL student pilot this is awesome! I was looking for a tutorial on VORs so I could simulate them in MSFS2020, and I made a 200nm trip with ease using only VORs! Thanks for the guide, you deserve more views!!

Every time I see one of Kip's tutorials I think, "I've done this many times already, how can I possibly learn more than I already know?" And yet each time I learn a ton. Like the others, I'm sure I'll be re-watching this a few times. Kip's clarity of thought and language allows him to thoroughly present complicated topics with stark simplicity. Keep 'em coming please!

Best VOR tutorial. To the point. I like the use of simple aircraft with analog instruments to better explain the meaning of those gauges and radios. Thanks!

You make the best MSFS tutorials ever. So straight forward and easy to understand! I really look forward to more tutorials from you, especially the G1000 NXi!

The quality of this video is amazing, you're an excellent content creator. Thank you very much!

You do the best intruction of any videos i have seen on the MSFS!

One of the best flight tutorials I have seen. Thank you.

This was clear, concise, and everything I needed to rock some VOR navigation. Thank you so much!

Man, your videos are awesome. I'm new to MSF2020 and I'm learning a lot watching your video tutorials. Thank you!

Clearly one of the best VOR tutorials on YouTube. subscribed :)

Heading and course aren’t the same thing and it’s a really important distinction to keep straight, especially for instrument flying. And when the flag says “TO,” that doesn’t mean you’re flying to the VOR. You could be flying away from it. The “TO” flag indicates that in order to fly TO the station, if the needle is centered, fly a course of what you’ve dialed in. This is a really hard concept for students to grasp and we’ve got to be precise as to not mess them up.

Your tutorials really pack a punch. Full of clearly communicated useful info, yet lean and concise. Great teaching skills! Thanks.

This was by far the best explaining/teaching of VOR I have ever seen, well done!

Your tutorials are the best. I’ve spent countless hours trying to understand something that you made seem so straightforward. Thank you!