How Do You Navigate In Flight Using An Automatic Direction Finder?
• Begin with locating a single radio source by looking first to the ADF control panel (Figure 2) to select the proper setting; push the button labeled ‘ADF’. • Next, select the radio station you wish to locate based on those selected for your flight path in your previously determined flight plan, and utilize the tuning knob (seen on panel in Figure 2) in order to tune into that station’s frequency. Figure 2 -ADF control panel, for tuning to and receiving signals from radio sources- • At this point, in aircraft where it is automated (as it is in the majority of newer models), the aircraft’s loop antenna (Figures 3 & 4), contained in a casing often found on the underside of the aircraft, will receive the signal being projected from the station it is tuned into and produce an audio output for the you or your navigator to hear, in the form of Morse code. • The designation for the station being received comes through as a series of short and long beeps, representing the dots and dashes invo
