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Good point, Walter.  Actually, now that you've reminded me, I've sort of done that already...except that I established my deviated course first, then used the rubber-band method to create a leg that matched the course I was flying.  That's worked well for me, as I (now) recall.

David, I don't see any direct way to do it, either. But maybe it would work as well to tap anywhere on the Map and then in the pop-up QuickView select Flight Planning > Fly Direct to Here.... That would give you a bearing to a more or less random point. The student could fly to that point and after passing it, fly the reciprocal back to it.

In any case, I'm glad you asked--because I've never used the Instruments page in flight, and now I'm going to try it for some refresher practice.

Here's a couple of links that might help using certified IFR gps. All of which have an OBS function (like the old Lowrance did)

Radial in a flight plan: https://youtu.be/qb6k0DKWOcs

OBS mode (vs typical leg mode) https://youtu.be/tmOw0V_DZ9M (start @ 6:30 in)

Hope this helps clarify my earlier comments re: OBS mode on the old Lowrance.

ok - so now on departure from ABC fly runway heading until you intercept the 123 radial of the XYZ VOR,   XYZ then as filed :-)

So let's say I could pull up my flight plan click on ABC waypoint, set OBS mode 230 F (runway heading),   click on XYZ waypoint, select OBS mode 123 F

(perhaps fly draws the radial and inserts a hidden waypoint for the turn at the intercept kinda like those top of climb points etc.)

ok - time to stop thinking aloud and go shovel some snow :-)