James Turner writes: > So, armed with the knowledge that TACANs are UHF, not VHF, and that > they use military channel codes, I went and looked at the DAFIF fields > again ... and guess what the field two after FREQ is? Yeah, it's the > channel. Boy do I feel silly.
It's more complicated than that. DME receivers (which are UHF) can use TACANs to get distance information -- usually, you do that by tuning in a fake paired VOR frequency. For example, if I tune my DME to 108.8, or slave it to a NAV radio tuned to 108.8, I get distance readings from the UPP TACAN at CYOW, even though there's no VOR. Can the paired frequency be deduced from the channel? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
