TACAN Offset navigation possible?

[hobbes57]

In our beloved F-4E, do we have a way to navigate directly to an offset of a TACAN point? Say I want to fly directly to a point 34nm and 90° from the LSV TACAN - can the HSI point me there somehow? This is without using waypoints.

The Mirage F1 has this capability and I find it very useful there, so I'm wondering if that's possible in the F-4E.

If not - how DO you then navigate directly to such an offset point? I know I can intercept the course line out from from the TACAN point and then turn  and follow it, but that's not the direct path I want to take.

Thank you, fellow navigators!

Edited April 29 by hobbes57

[Zabuzard]

9 hours ago, hobbes57 said:

In our beloved F-4E, do we have a way to navigate directly to an offset of a TACAN point? Say I want to fly directly to a point 34nm and 90° from the LSV TACAN - can the HSI point me there somehow? This is without using waypoints.
The Mirage F1 has this capability and I find it very useful there, so I'm wondering if that's possible in the F-4E.
If not - how DO you then navigate directly to such an offset point? I know I can intercept the course line out from from the TACAN point and then turn  and follow it, but that's not the direct path I want to take.
Thank you, fellow navigators!

There is no extra feature for such a navigation. But, as you said, you can tune in on the TACAN station and use the HSI indication to manually navigate such that you end up at the right angle and distance - usually involving intercepting the radial.

That said, you can bring up your map tools, put a spider card over it and figure the coords out that way.
 

 

Edited April 30 by Zabuzard

[pierscockey]

Have a watch of this video.  It will teach how to do that.

 

 

[hobbes57]

Thank you both, those videos were very helpful. More hands-on than the F1 for sure