PILOT SPIN
Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on October 30, 2019, 02:17:10 PM
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How many still fly with paper charts, and use a rhumb line and a compass and a clock?
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How many still fly with paper charts, and use a rhumb line and a compass and a clock?
If I was still flying, the answer to your question would be: it depends. Paper charts, certainly, but I would use pilotage and navaids as appropriate.
I never did put a GPS in my airplane.
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I've always enjoyed pilotage, dead reckoning type of flying, radios off.
It's amazing to me, that today so many won't even consider it. One fellow I knew had a homebuilt, with 3 gps's in it. He absolutely would not fly without GPS.
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I can’t even get around town on the ground in my car without a gps these days.
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I use most if not all the technology. I pretend I am in a simulator, and barely look outside, and then only when I get a traffic alert on the panel or my tablet. I like the nice red glow of the gauges and the female controllers in my ears, especially at night.
Paper charts? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Ever hear of Foreflight?
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I use most if not all the technology. I pretend I am in a simulator, and barely look outside, and then only when I get a traffic alert on the panel or my tablet. I like the nice red glow of the gauges and the female controllers in my ears, especially at night.
Paper charts? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Ever hear of Foreflight?
hmmmm, maybe you should adopt the handle of him-who-shall-not-be-named.
(just kidding)
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How many still fly with paper charts, and use a rhumb line and a compass and a clock?
Yes. Especially when flying a Warbird. Paper charts fit nicely in the shin pocket on my Nomex flight suit. Pull it out, check a freq., put it back.
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I stopped using charts when I started using the iPad and Foreflight for navigation. You guys can be Luddites, I like situational awareness. Read some of the elder accident reports. Lots of guys got lost, ran out of gas, crashed and died.
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I stopped using charts when I started using the iPad and Foreflight for navigation. You guys can be Luddites, I like situational awareness. Read some of the elder accident reports. Lots of guys got lost, ran out of gas, crashed and died.
Don't equate charts with lack of situational awareness.
Lots of guys screw up with all the bells and whistles. CVRs record GPWS warnings or TAWS warnings just before the aircraft flies into a mountain in CAVU conditions.
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I stopped using charts when I started using the iPad and Foreflight for navigation. You guys can be Luddites, I like situational awareness. Read some of the elder accident reports. Lots of guys got lost, ran out of gas, crashed and died.
And what do you do when your electronics fail?
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I stopped using charts when I started using the iPad and Foreflight for navigation. You guys can be Luddites, I like situational awareness. Read some of the elder accident reports. Lots of guys got lost, ran out of gas, crashed and died.
You’re not a Luddite if you use charts. Most of us use Foreflight as well. And more than once my iPad on my kneeboard or a mount has gone black because it overheated in a Warbird with a canopy.
But good to know that Foreflight will prevent me from running out of gas. I’ve got to check to se if that’s part of my subscription.
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I use most if not all the technology. I pretend I am in a simulator, and barely look outside, and then only when I get a traffic alert on the panel or my tablet. I like the nice red glow of the gauges and the female controllers in my ears, especially at night.
I do the same in my car.
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And what do you do when your electronics fail?
I use my back-up electrics.
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I LOVE flying old fashioned.
Charts and landmarks, along with minimal electronics makes for slow, pleasant, stress free afternoons.
$!00 hamburgers, slow sightseeing along the beach or over farmland is just the ticket for me.
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I LOVE flying old fashioned.
Charts and landmarks, along with minimal electronics makes for slow, pleasant, stress free afternoons.
$!00 hamburgers, slow sightseeing along the beach or over farmland is just the ticket for me.
IFR: I Follow Roads
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I find that charts are useful for covering the windows and simulating IFR. Because the Luscombe only has one gyro instrument (the thing with needle and ball) I find the charts are necessary so that I don't cheat.
On a more serious note: Having pilotaging (is that word?) my way around New England and dead reckoning the North Atlantic in the 80's I am enjoying the GPS revolution. I still keep a book of charts in the airplane. One never knows. . .
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Charles is that you?