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Old 03-22-2010, 08:09 AM
Viikate Viikate is offline
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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt View Post
Much better and faster to tune a second beacon and see where the lines intersect on the map, presto, you have a precise fix of your position.
Of course this is better and faster. My point was just to show that it's also posible to get a rough position fix from single beacon (in case there isn't a 2nd beacon available).

BTW: the horizontal needle of AFN-1 & AFN-2 shows the signal strength, which roughly correlates with range to beacon. I suppose an experienced pilot could interpret the range from this info. Although the signal strength varies a lot because of radio horizon, land formations and time of day.
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