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This flight will take us from Toronto Pearson Intl to New York's LaGuardia . First set the plane under 'go to
airport' to Toronto Pearson Intl. This flight will cover 313 miles and we'll fly at Flight level 310. In the United States, anything over 18,000 feet is referred to as FL. FL310 is 31,000 feet. Between 13000
and 18000 feet is a transition zone.. level flight is not allowed in this space. You must be climbing or descending. Before departure set your NAV2 to 108.20 (GEE VOR) and your
ADF to 257.. you can set you NAV1 to 108.50 which is the ILS for the runway at LGA.. We'll primarily use the RMI
indicator to navigate this flight.. You can use NAV1 to navigate and most pilots do, but it requires a little more know how about tracking radials..for now when you fly the 737 you can set
your course selector to the heading of the runway you'll be landing at, in this case 134.. set your heading indicator to 122 which is the first turn we'll make after departure.. set your altitude to 27,000
or whatever flight level you want to fly. You'll notice the yellow arrow in the RMI which is your ADF is pointed about 30 degrees to the left .. this means the first
NDB
is 30 degrees to the left of the runway heading.. No go ahead and take off and climb to about 3000 feet holding the runway heading, at this point turn AP on and turn on the HDG button on the AP, the plane will make a nice turn to heading 122.. watch your pitch and try and maintian about a 15% pitch on your climb.... when you complete this turn you'll see the yellow arrow is almost pointing straight up.. if it's still to the left turn a little more left by using the heading selector till the yellow needle centers straight up on the
RMI (Not HSI) also at about 7000 feet turn on the ALT button and the AP will control your climb to your desired altitiude. Watch your speed doesn't exceed 250 KTS below 10,000
feet.. hold this heading you are on. after about 3 or 4 minutes you'll see the yellow arrow start to swing around failrly quickly.. if it swings to left the NDB
is to your left..f it swing to the right, the NDB is to your right.. when it's at a 90 degree angle you're abeam the NDB, it will quickly be pointing down meaning you are flying
away from the NDB
180 degrees.. when the needle starts to turn quickly, change the number in your heading indicator to 132, the plane will make a nice right turn and you will be inline to intercept the GEE VOR
in a few minutes..Your NAV2 radio is already set to the GEE VOR, at this point you can reset your ADF to the next NDB
PYA at 260.00, you'll be climbing to your preselcted altitude and on a heading of 132. After about 3 or 4 minutes on this heading you see the green arrow on the RMI
come alive at about 78 miles from GEE..you should be pretty close to having the VOR
directly in front of you, if not, make a few minor course corrections..the green arrow should be pointing straight up, You should reach your cruisng altitude on the way to GEE.. Make any minor course corrections using the heading selector en route to GEE. Around 4-5 miles from GEE the green needle will start to swing quickly around showing you are passing the
VOR, at this point turn using the heading selector to a heading of 121 to intercept the next NDB beacon PYA.. The yellow arrow probably still won't be picking up the PYA NDB
but it will very shortly.. for the time being you can leave NAV2 set to GEE VOR
as a reference to tell how FAR from GEE you are.. around 17 miles from GEE you will see the yellow arrow on the RMI
come to life.. You will find that you are probably right on course with the PYA NDB
straight ahead.. if not make a few minor course corrections.. At about 32 miles from GEE the yellow arrow will start to turn quickly indicating you are pasing the PYA NDB. At this point turn
to a heading of 124 to intercept the VARNA NDB and change you ADF freq to 266. The VARNA NDB
will probably come to life right away and you should see the yellow arrow on the RMI pointing straight up indicating you're right on course..About 63 miles from GEE VOR
you will see the yellow needle on the RMI again swing quickly around indicating you are passing the VARNA NDB, at this point shange your heading selector to 144 and reset your
ADF to 332 to intercept the SMITE NDB. This NDB should be picked up quyickly and you'll be on a heading of 144 and the SMITE NDB
should be pretty much directly ahead.. You will lose the VOR signal from GEE on this leg at about the 80 mile from GEE mark.. you can reset NAV2 at this point to VOR
HUO at 116.10. It should come to life pretty quickly at about 78 miles from HUO.. you'll see you're pretty close to being lined up for the VOR but remember you're still tracking the SMITE
NDB with the yellow arrow. At about 73 miles from HUO you will see the yellow arrow turn quickly indicating you are passing the SMITE NDB.. at this point turn to a heading of 137
using the heading selector to intercept the HUO VOR.. On this leg you will begin your gradual descent to LGA.. At VOR
HUO a good altitude would be about 11,000 feet...... you shouldn't have to make any more changes to your NAV radios for this flight since we preset the ILS
before takeoff and HUO is the last VOR on this flight. When you reach HUO VOR.. and don't wait till the DME
says 0 becasue it won't.. change your course to 154 for our approach into LGA. At this point you have 2 options with respect to your NAV2 radio, you can leave it set to the HUO VOR
or you can set it to the VOR of LGA which is 113.1 This is only for refernce but you might prefer to set it to LGA. remember, you won't be tracking this VOR
so don't be alarmed that the green arrow isn't straight ahead of you. you're vectoring to line up for runway 13. by setting the NAV 2 radio to LGA VOR
you'll see that the airport is about 45-50 miles ahead. maintain your 154 heading. try and be about 6000 feet at 28-30 miles from the airport and holding at that altitude. around 20-23 miles form the airport you'll see the
HSI NAV1
come to life.. You should be below the glide slope which is fine... at this point you can activate the APR button on the AP. don't touch the HDG or ALT buttons... The glide slope will come down to you.. when the glide slope intercepts your altitude, you'll see the ALT button go off by itself.. the Localizer is controlling your glide down.. The AP will intercept the localizer approach for the runway around 17 miles out and turn the plane to line up with the runway. you'll see the HDG light go out when this happens.. At this point yopu can let the AP fly the plane in or you can disengage the AP when you see the runway ahead and you're lined up to fly it in yourself..
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