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4. If you wish, you could scroll ↑ or ↓ here to select another VOR, but
for now we will just accept the nearest one. Press
ENT.
5. The waypoint information screen appears. If you wanted to navigate
there, you press
ENT, since the GO TO command is highlighted. But we
just want to see it on the map, so press → to
FIND ON MAP|ENT.
Waypoint information screen on VOR nearest this position. Screen shows name,
identifier, city, radio frequency, latitude/longitude and its compass bearing. It
also shows both distance to the VOR and your "Radial From" – information
ready at your fingertips when Air Traffic Control wants a position report! The
figure at left shows Go To command; right figure shows Find On Map command.
6. AirMap's map appears, with the cross-hair cursor highlighting the
VOR's symbol. A pop-up name box identifies the VOR. A data box at the
bottom of the screen continues to display the location's latitude and
longitude, distance and bearing.
Map screen showing Finding Waypoint,
the result of a VOR search.
7. To clear the search and return to the last page displayed, press
EXIT|EXIT|EXIT. (Before you completely exited out of the Search menus,
you could have gone looking for another place.)
NOTE:
Search works from mapping data loaded in AirMap. Aviation Navi-
gation searches also use information from a Jeppesen database, and
General Navigation searches use POI information available with a