Selecting radials for radial interception I’m a beginner in intrument flying so sorry for my ignorance. Few months ago I was doing BIR training and with my CFI we were intercepting radials, we were doing that on HSI (Garmin G500).
He told me that If I want to intercept radial inbound I should set the tail of the needle to the desired inbound radial and if I want to intercept radial outbound I should set the head of the needle to the the desired outbound radial.
My question - is this way of setting desired radials correct? Because I read somewhere that we always should set the head of the needle to the course that we mean to fly, no matter if it is outbound or inbound - to avoid reverse sensing.
So if I want to intercept and fly radial outbound 180 I should set head of the needle of my HSI on 180 and if I want to intercept and fly radial 240 inbound I should set the head of the needle of my HSI on 240. Now I'm confused, please help me out.
This is a terminology problem - and I think you're actually both right but you need to learn the terminology. Radials always radiate out from the VOR.
You should absolutely always set the needle to the heading you intend to fly in order to avoid reverse sensing.
However, if you're intending to &quot;fly inbound on the 240 radial&quot; then you're actually on the reciprocal heading of 060 - which is what should be set on your OBS. The flag should indicate &quot;TO&quot;.
If you're flying outbound on 180 then you should set 180 on the OBS and the flag should indicate &quot;FROM&quot;.