Homing

Homing
This where you keep the nose and needle of the ADF pointed at the NDB.

Homing. Flying the aircraft on any heading required to keep the needle pointing to the 0° relative bearing position.

HOMING- Flight toward a NAVAID, without correcting for wind, by adjusting the aircraft heading to maintain a relative bearing of zero degrees.
(See BEARING.)
(See ICAO term HOMING.) ...

Homing & tracking to a VOR. Even with a crosswind component tracking toward a VOR is quite simple, rotate the OBS until the CDI is centred and TO is indicated, ...

AN/MPN-2 was a mobile radar beacon which provided navigational aid and homing facilities for aircraft. Its major components were mounted in a trailer van. major components are AN/CPN-6, and AN/CPN-8 ...

FLENSBURG
; (FuG 227) German air interception homing device.
FLGHT PATH ANGLE (FPA)
Angle in vertical plane of earth speed vector and groundspeed vector (usual definition), earth-referenced flight path angle; angle in vertical plane o...

ELT - Emergency locator transmitter; emits a homing signal from a crashed aircraft to simplify location for rescue services.

ENVELOPE - Container, usually flexible, or the lifting gas or hot air of an airship or balloon.

Can be fitted with a radar homing warhead and loiter waiting for enemy radars to switch on. First used in Kosovo by USN F/A-18s ...

Fixed Loop-aerial. An aerial permanently fixed on an aeroplane and used as a homing receiver.

2 (3,380 km/h; 2,100 mph), climb to 24,400 m (80,000 ft), and has a combat range of at least 1,130 km (700 mi). It carries two radar-controlled and two infrared-homing air-to-air missiles.

See also: Aircraft, Direct, Pilot, Power, Speed