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DME ARC
How to fly a DME ARC at a VOR

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General
What is a DME ARC?
- It is a circle at a certain distance around a beacon. - You can fly it: clockwise => increasing radials counter clockwise => decreasing radials

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Where we need it?

We can find a DME ARC in the VOR/DME approach of rwy 07R in Brussels (13 nm of BUB VOR increasing radials).

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What you need

An aircraft with VOR/DME equipment
- Displaying distance from beacon

A pilot who can use them A VOR/DME beacon A plan:

- Know what to do - Know when to do it

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Three methods to fly it

FMC and navigation display
- You fly manually on the green line.

Raw-data
- You only need an aircraft that is VOR/DME equipped.

Full FMC/autopilot method

- Just program your FMC and thats all.

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The DME ARC for our training

For our training we will fly the 15.0 nm DME ARC of AFI VOR, decreasing radials so counter clockwise.

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We are established on radial 280, inbound track 100 of AFI VOR.

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FMC and navigation display

In the fix page of our FMC we put the AFI VOR, the radial we are flying to the VOR and the distance of our DME arc. After this you see the green circle and the green line. When approaching the green circle start your turn and fly over the green circle.

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Raw-data
To start we tune our NAV1 radio on the frequency of AFI VOR. We turn on the switch for NAV1 on the efis-panel. We select the course 100 for the inbound track of 100.

We intercept inbound track 100.

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When we are approaching the 15nm we have to start our right turn. But when exactly? => When you want to make a turn of 90 to be established on another track, we start our turn at a certain distance before that track: speed/100= xx.x nm before track. In our case 230/100= 2.3nm before the 15.0 nm DME ARC. So at a distance of 2.3nm +15nm= 17.3nm of AFI. The turn have to be a rate one turn (see extra).

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Set course: 080 and heading: 170

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We continue our turn and establish on the DME ARC.

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When the purple beam passes the purple line we set course 070 and heading 160.

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Next step: course 060 and heading 150. Next step: course 050 and heading 160. We can continue this method as long as we are on the correct DME.

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What to do when we are to short to the fix?

Instead of turning 10 to the left when the purple beam passes the purple line we continue on the same heading till the purple beam is on the second dot under de purple line.

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On this moment we turn 10 to the left. We repeat these steps till we are back on the correct DME.

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What to do when we are to far from the fix? Instead of turning 10 to the left when the purple beam passes the purple line. We already turn to the left when the purple beam is on the second dot above de purple line.

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Full FMC/autopilot method

We need to fly the 15.0 nm DME ARC of AFI VOR starting at radial 280 and terminating at radial 200. Open the fmc on the legs page. First point is 20nm from AFI on the radial 280.

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Point two: 15nm from AFI on the radial 280.

Point three: 15nm from AFI on the radial 270.

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Point four: 15nm from AFI on the radial 260.

. When you have filed this, you get this result.

Point ten: 15 nm from AFI on the radial 200.

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Just press LNAV on your mcp and thats it.

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Extra
During this manual we have flown a 15.0nm DME ARC. We have used jumps of ten radials. When you have to fly a DME ARC with a smaller radius, it is better to take bigger jumps e.g. 20 radials. When the radius is bigger we take jumps e.g. 5 radials.

Rate one turn: bank angle have to be speed/10+7 e.g. 230/10+7= 30 so bank angle is 30

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