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One of the nice details I've discovered about this aircraft is that if you select and NDB station from a Preset ADF frequency present on the Helo, besides all the usual indications for doing Radio Navigation, the Station you selected will appear as a Direct-To point on the TSD and HMD. Cool little detail that helps a lot flying instrument approaches. Here is the approach to Kutaisi.

 

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One thing that confuses me in my navigation test mission set in Georgia is that having tuned to Senaki, the aircraft has a habit of retuning to Batumi.

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After you selected Senaki, did you press the "Tune" option? I was having the same problem until I read on the manual that you have to press that darn little button on the TSD.

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If you're not in range of the NDB in navigation mode it will revert back to the last tuning. If you switch to ANT (antenna) mode then it will not revert on insufficient signal.

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14 hours ago, Frederf said:

If you're not in range of the NDB in navigation mode it will revert back to the last tuning. If you switch to ANT (antenna) mode then it will not revert on insufficient signal.

That's likely it - flying from Kutaisi, I'm much closer to Senaki than Batumi but suspect there are momentary signal drops i.e. re-tuning immediately reacquires Senaki's NDB (as a flight of 2, my wingman saw the same behaviour but switched stations at different times).

Will need to retest using ANT mode to be 100% sure - ANT mode isn't useful for anything other than audio ID as it doesn't display direction on the compass rose or heading tape.

Setting a manual frequency didn't switch to Batumi in flight but I'd entered the Senaki NDB more than once in testing, so perhaps that fixed it.

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Whatever frequency you tune the ADF to, whether manually or using a preset, the ADF should remain on that frequency regardless of the presence of a signal or not, or what mode it is in (ANT/ADF). If it is changing frequencies without player input, it's a bug.

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On 3/23/2022 at 2:18 AM, RodBorza said:

One of the nice details I've discovered about this aircraft is that if you select and NDB station from a Preset ADF frequency present on the Helo, besides all the usual indications for doing Radio Navigation, the Station you selected will appear as a Direct-To point on the TSD and HMD. Cool little detail that helps a lot flying instrument approaches. Here is the approach to Kutaisi.

 

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It doesn't happen for me. And are you sure it was automatic, in your photo I can see a difference in where your homeplate is and where the NDB is?

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