I used Omega for aviation long range navigation in northern Canada in the 90's just prior to GPS arriving on the scene. It worked very well for getting us close enough to use ground based approach aids. It worked far better than the dead reckoning we used prior to that. Now we use GPS and LPV approaches which pretty much do away with ground based approach aids. I really find it amazing how our navigation progresses over the years.
@flat-earther Жыл бұрын
hi forrestmiller, have you become a flat earther yet?
@thomthumbe2 ай бұрын
I remember when Omega system status used to be broadcast at regular intervals via WWV.
@johnwells1015 Жыл бұрын
The beginning of my airline career we began with Omega Navigation and worked our way through LORAN, Inertial Navigation, and GPS navigation systems.
@flat-earther Жыл бұрын
hi johnwells, have you become a flat earther yet?
@johnwells1015 Жыл бұрын
@@flat-earther Nope, nor will I ever be a flat earther.
@flat-earther Жыл бұрын
@@johnwells1015 okay. BTW john what do you think about all gubments drawing a line around you(Antarctic Treaty) and saying you are not allowed to leave? If you don't know what I mean, read my about tab.
@alanspicertelecom11 жыл бұрын
Actually used this onboard ship in USN back in the late 70's to early 80's. Remember Dead Reckoning? How fast are you going ... where you think you are going to be in 1/2 hour or 1 hour? Good Luck!!!! Shoot sun line at noon time, and stars in the early morning hours. Also Loran C radio navigation. They just put satellite systems when I was getting out in 1981.
@shrivatsankchari17294 жыл бұрын
We learned omega today in gps class. Cant believe Im actually talking to someone who used it!
@alanspicertelecom4 жыл бұрын
@@shrivatsankchari1729 Yes, receiver was in small CIC just off the bridge. When standing navigation watch, I think every hour, go get the numbers for the Lane Count from the machine. And the lanes already on the special Omega chart on the chart table. Plot the LOP's from the numbers and mark a fix. I'm thinking maybe we wrote an "O" or Omega as the type of fix. This was 100 years ago so ... :-) :-) Really 40 years ago.
@davidfern58643 жыл бұрын
@@shrivatsankchari1729 I spent ten years of my career working as a VLF engineer for the U.S. Navy, and worked directly with some of the very people who actually designed the OMEGA system.
@flat-earther Жыл бұрын
hi alanspicertelecom, have you become a flat earther yet?
@jimboke6yb8 жыл бұрын
it seems like a slow motion long wave length version of GPS to me. Loran and VORTAC somewhere in the middle.
@porcovasco12 жыл бұрын
Fascinating
@mindopener41252 ай бұрын
What about the one that was located in Liberia
@dimitardimov858 жыл бұрын
Is there such movie about Loran C?
@user-hm2gb6pm6b4 ай бұрын
Useable signals
@xamlake11 жыл бұрын
what did he say at 3:10 and 4:16? i think they are cut or something
@yugos.oficial3 жыл бұрын
classified information related to the intensity of the signal I guess.
@ch6462112 жыл бұрын
very interesting video....this should be still used as back up.......
@dtiydr8 жыл бұрын
Wonder how many MW they put out.
@davidfern58643 жыл бұрын
Each station had a transmitter power of approximately 10 kW.
@stephenbritton92974 жыл бұрын
Cause LORAN's not good enough?
@wellinformed89982 жыл бұрын
LORAN required many more stations and did not provide world wide coverage and was more expensive but it was much more accurate.
@geraldinehallelujah39235 жыл бұрын
Would this work on a Globe?? Really?
@uploadJ4 жыл бұрын
It did ... for about 3 decades.
@AM-in8gh2 жыл бұрын
It works because the earth is flat.
@humanidadeparalela45722 жыл бұрын
@@AM-in8gh ,It's true!
@AM-in8gh2 жыл бұрын
Epic find. And people still think we use satellites.
@KirkHermary2 жыл бұрын
We do
@jadbiz2 жыл бұрын
@@KirkHermary we dont!! Satellites is a lie . Satellites are so far away that the radio signal would lose to much power . we can do navigation system with ground antennas it's easier, faster , less expensive and more accurate.
@guyintenn Жыл бұрын
@@jadbiz Actually, your intellect is a lie. Can you give me the formula to confirm your thesis that radio waves would lose too much power from a satellite? What is it that I see with my naked eye, binoculars, or thru my telescope? I have seen the ISS, China's Tiangong-1, rows of Starlink sats, and back in the day, Iridium satellites. I have seen these and more, many times. So what am I looking at?
@jadbiz Жыл бұрын
@@guyintenn ballons you are seeing high altitude baloons. Read about china"s spy baloon on usa.
@mrMacMilli20008 жыл бұрын
Proof of a Flat earth
@seemeasis8 жыл бұрын
+Ace Mcloud indeed
@humanidadeparalela45722 жыл бұрын
Certainly flat!
@daviqlmuadz92034 жыл бұрын
The earth is Flat
@africanj97383 жыл бұрын
Learn some more physics.
@AM-in8gh2 жыл бұрын
Physics as in testable, repeatable, water at rest showing no curve on the top?
@Foxy-rj8yw2 жыл бұрын
Because it’s all being pulled to the center smart one
@humanidadeparalela45722 жыл бұрын
@@africanj9738, the vídeo yet show-me phisical.
@humanidadeparalela45722 жыл бұрын
@@AM-in8gh , flatearth!
@jeteer99053 жыл бұрын
earth is flat wkwk
@humanidadeparalela45722 жыл бұрын
Certainly!!
@jimboke6yb8 жыл бұрын
it seems like a slow motion long wave length version of GPS to me. Loran and VORTAC somewhere in the middle.