Intercepting radials

[foxmike80]

Hello,

I've been trying to do some old-fashioned raw-data navigation and want to follow a radial inbound a VOR. When I select an intercept heading in AP HDG mode and activate the LOC, the PFD shows HDG in green and LOC in blue, but the aircraft immediately turns to the programmed flight plan course.

In the picture I have manually selected HDG 234 to intercept the 150 radial inbound a station. That station is behind me on my flight plan - I'm turning around. When I activate LOC I would expect the plane to hold heading 234 to intercept the radial and then turn right to follow the radial. What actually happens is that the plane turns left to follow the original flight plan route.
However, once I have manually intercepted the radial and then select LOC it follows the radial.
Is it me doing something wrong or is there something wrong with the plane?
Thanks for any support,

Matt

[foxmike80]

Ok, did some research and it seems the modern A320s cannot intercept radials. Would not have expected that. I guess this topic can be closed then.

[robinottawa]

Im not surprised if that's true. VOR nav is for little guys, no?

[derl30n]

well VOR navigation is fun, but the a320 is able to do that, the real one at least.

[CaptVirtual]

Isn't this procedure achieved in airliners via the FMGC/FMC by creating a new waypoint entering the VOR id and the radial/distance
e.g. ABC300/50 ABC300/-50 will place a waypoint 50nm inbound from ABC on the 300 radial.

I believe you can also do it via Direct To Page - Radial In
http://a320dp.com/A320_DP/nav-flight-management/sys-14.9.0.html

[derl30n]

yes you can do that, you can create waypoint and even can program and radial intercept. You can also do this manually without any flight plan programming by tuning the rad nav page.