[MikkOwl]

Originally Posted by Viikate

Automatically motor driven loop will try to turn and stay at the direction which gives null signal or no signal. Operator would tune the receiver to the frequency of certain beacon, but we have simplified this and selection is based on beacon ID.

I'm pretty sure that all war time automatic D/F-equipment had a manual mode too because of meaconing. Meaconing will get the automatic mode confused. But we haven't planned any manual mode even simple meaconing is possible now.

Google is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_direction_finder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_finding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_navigation

And the most epic navigation document ever which makes you appreciate the Art of Navigation.
http://aafcollection.info/items/docu...0198-01-00.pdf

Understood. Thanks again for the additional links and information The last link is a forbidden hotlink, but I'll dig it up (and other things) from the website it resides on.

The AF Loop antenna would still have to deal with figuring out which 180 degree direction is the actual heading of the beacon, but I read on wiki just now that modern systems have an auxilliary "sense antenna" to solve that problem. Navigation in those auto AF planes must be a lot more convenient than flying the fighters for sure.. The 110 seems to be stuffed with various navigational aids, with redundant functions if any other fails. But there's never been any use of either of these things until TD and 4.10. Going to be fun exploring a whole new side (area) of the airplane (instrument panel).

There's a few more strange antennas sticking out from the 110 G-2, and I have been unable to identify any of them. Maybe the manuals I found today from WW2 will shed light on that. One of them is bound to be the sense antenna.