When the needle is to the left, turn left and when the needle is to the right, turn right, When centered, the aircraft is on course. Radials, Radials, Radials To grasp the VOR system you must understanding that it is entirely based on radials away from the station . You'll remember that this radial points to the west of true north because of the west magnetic variation. North on a VOR is Magnetic North. They all point away from the station.
Radials are always away from the station.
There is only one line on the chart for each numbered radial for a particular VOR station. Whether you are flying it outbound or inbound, or crossing it, a radial is always in the same place. The only possible complication lies in the reciprocity of the numbers. Turn around and fly inbound you must mentally reverse the numbers and physically reverse the OBS setting so that your course is now the reciprocal of the radial. But the radial you are flying on hasn't changed.