What is a VOR Radial?

Answer 1

A VOR is a station that broadcasts 360 little lines. 1 line for every degree. A radial is one of those lines. Example: the 360 radial is North or 360 degrees.

Aircraft can track these radials TO and FROM a station. This is one of the primary ways of navigation. Victor ways, those are the highways in the sky lie between 2 VOR stations.

If you're wondering how a VOR works, the station send's 2 signals. One is constant in every direction while the other is slightly diffrent for every degree. Equipment on board the aircraft decode these signals and by means of an HSI you can follow a track etc.

Answer 2

Charles has a great explanation here and I'll only add a little bit. You can also do what's called an intercept on one of those little lines coming out from the VOR station. Say for example, ATC tells you to turn left and intercept the 058 radial from the Yahoo VOR. You would then set the indicator on your panel to 058 degrees, turn left, and then wait for the indicator needle to center. That way, you don't have to fly to the VOR, but you intercept that radial coming from it and then turn to follow it or proceed in some other direction.

Answer 3

It is a track (1 of the 360 available) on the 'system' known as the VHF Omnidirectional Radial.

It is basically a homing device which can be intercepted by pilots ir order to navigate to a particular airfield.

Answer 4

VHF Omnidirectional Radial (though some people refer to the "R" as Radio or Range). The VHF means Very High Frequency.

Its a radiated system of 360 individual radio beams fro a transmitter that a Navigation radio can be tuned to so that a pilot or auto-pilot can determine aircraft orientation, speed, direction and speed...in relation to one's current position and some other important places to be at or left from. With this its hard to get lost..

Answer 5

If I had to guess I would say Vector Origin Radar Radial. A type of radar system that projects outward 360 degrees from the point of origin.