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Meaning of omnibearing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The bearing of an aircraft, usually relative to magnetic north, determined by omnidirectional radio signals.

Examples

“Consequently the capsule could be positioned only by omnibearings reported from the capsule.”
“By map reference and omnibearings, he erroneously estimated his position at E', and would have attempted to fly a heading away from the station had he not been corrected.”
“Then a continuous readout of the omnibearing appears in the space used for frequency display, followed by an "F" when "from" is selected, for positive identification.”
“The bearing of the aircraft is shown in degrees on the aircraft's omnibearing selector. Left-right displacement from the bearing line is shown on the course-line-deviation indicator. To denote direction of the omnibearing line with respect to the VOR, a "to-from" ambiguity indicator is used.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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