How To Scan Nav Beacon Elit

How to scan nav beacon elit is a part of pilot training. In order to hone your skills and accuracy, you will be asked to scan for NAV beacon by various flight controllers in the game. You may find yourself scanning for an unknown NAV beacon repeatedly or you may be asked to scan for certain specific NAV beacon repeatedly too.

In either case, it’s something you should get familiar with if you want to become a better pilot and avoid being labeled as an elit dangerous at the same time.

A good understanding of how nav beacon scanning works can help you in your quest to master this skill and increase your kill ratio in the process. Let’s take a look at everything that goes into scanning for a particular NAV beacon and how best to do it without getting killed in the process!

What is NAV Beacon Scanning?

Scanning for NAV beacon is a technique pilots use in order to approximate their position using the knowledge of certain known NAV beacon’s relative location. Sometimes the client will have the FMC programmed to do this and sometimes the client makes use of a navigation database that contains the basic navigation information of all known NAV beacon.

In either case, a pilot will use the known location of one NAV beacon as a reference point, allowing them to roughly determine their own location. With this information combined with the pilot’s known speed and heading, the pilot can estimate the distance and direction to any other known NAV beacon.

The blue box on the image above gives you a visual representation of what’s happening. As you can see, when we initiate a GPS transfer, the GPS sends us the pilot’s current position along with their altitude and heading. The FMC then uses this information to calculate our own location.

Now, if we know the distance and bearing to the next known NAV beacon, we can calculate our position using math and geometry to get the distance and bearing to that beacon. Using the heading and bearing of the next beacon allows us to calculate our distance and direction. We then use this information to plot our next move.

How To Scan Nav Beacons Elit?

As we said earlier, NAV beacon scanning is done by first determining the distance and bearing to a particular known beacon from a specific known position. You can begin scanning for any NAV beacon you are given access to by pressing the NAV beacon button at the bottom left corner of your screen.

In the picture below, we will see an example of what scanning for a NAV beacon looks like. What you should focus on is the blue box on the image. This shows you a visual representation of what’s happening while you are scanning. The first thing you need to do is initiate a GPS transfer.

Go to the GPS section of the FMC and initiate a GPS transfer by pressing the appropriate button. Now, you need to get your aircraft’s position. This can be done a couple of different ways but one way is to use the Kestrel ADS-B In function. With the Kestrel ADS-B In function turned on, your aircraft will transmit its current position in real-time via ADS-B.

You can view this by pressing the ADS-B section of the FMC. Once you’ve got your aircraft’s current position, you are ready to scan for a particular known NAV beacon. Start by setting your heading to 0° and your speed to 0 knots. Now, start scanning for the beacon by pressing the scan for nav beacon button at the bottom left corner of your screen again.

You can see the beacon icon in the scan for nav beacon button now. After initiating a GPS transfer, your FMC will automatically calculate your current position based on the known beacon’s relative location. Once this information is available, the scanner will feed the new position to your client and you will see your aircraft’s location on the map.

Once the location shows up on the map, you can track this location by keeping your heading and speed steady. This can be done by pressing the track map button at the bottom left corner of your screen. While tracking the beacon, you will be able to see your distance to the beacon and bearing to the beacon as well. These two values will help you in calculating your position.

Now, you need to focus on the distance to the beacon. This is exactly like the finesse trick. You need to keep the distance value between 2 and 8 NM. If you are too close to the beacon, you will start receiving the beacon’s position. If you are too far, you will not get accurate position information and may even miss the beacon altogether.

The bearing value is a little trickier to understand. The best way to explain it is to use an example. Let’s say you are scanning for a NAV beacon at 500ft. You should always keep the bearing to the beacon below 25°. If the beacon’s bearing is 25° or more, you are too far away.

If the beacon’s bearing is less than 25°, you are too close. Now, you need to keep the distance value below 2 NM and the bearing value below 25°. If you succeed in doing so, your FMC should calculate your current position with a good degree of accuracy and the blue box on the image will turn green.

Tips for How To Scan Nav Beacon Elit

– Always initiate a GPS transfer before scanning for a nav beacon. If you don’t initiate the transfer before scanning, your FMC will calculate your current position based on the NAV beacon’s position and you will get too far off.

– Always keep your distance value between 2 and 8 NM while scanning. If you scan above 8 NM, you will start receiving the NAV beacon’s position and the accuracy of your position will go down. If you scan below 2 NM, your nav beacon will not be visible on the map.

– Always keep your bearing below 25° while scanning. If the beacon’s bearing is 25° or more, you are too far. If the bearing is less than 25°, you are too close.

– Always keep your speed value between 0 and 0.5 knots while scanning. If you scan above 0.5 knots, you will start receiving the NAV beacon’s position. If you scan below 0 knots, you will not get accurate position information and may even miss the beacon.

– Always keep your aircraft’s position displayed on the map while scanning. If you turn the map off, you will miss the beacon.

– Always keep an eye on the distance value while scanning. If it goes above 8 NM, you need to turn and track the map until the distance value goes below 8 NM.

– Keep an eye on your speed value while scanning as well. If it goes above 0.5 knots, you will start receiving the NAV beacon’s position and the accuracy of your position will go down.

– Make sure to stay within the lines while scanning. If you go outside the lines, you will start receiving the beacon’s position and the accuracy of your position will go down.

– Always keep your head on a swivel while scanning for nav beacons. You need to make sure that you don’t miss a beacon while scanning multiple beacons.

Conclusion

In this article, we have discussed everything that goes into how to scan NAV beacon elit and how to do it without getting kill in the process. We hope you have learnt a lot from the article and now you will have the confidence to scan for those NAV beacon like a pro! Keep us posted on your progress, we’d love to see them in the comments below!