Ron Garret writes:

There are more landmarks there than you think. Why don't you pick an
example of a boundary that you're having trouble with? Talking about
this in generalities doesn't seem to be productive.

Most of the boundaries are troublesome if I'm not using a moving map
in the cockpit. I review the chart to see what the altitudes are for
the airspaces (this can be checked in MSFS but it requires pausing the
simulation), but I use the moving map to tell me the actual
boundaries, and I steer around them (or into them), as required.

The worry I have is that not all cockpits contain moving maps, or the
real-world equipment might fail. Then I have to depend entirely on a
chart to find the boundaries, and that seems like an extremely
labor-intensive activity. And the times when I'd most need to check
boundaries are also the times when I might well be the most busy in
the cockpit even without taking time to look at charts.

As an exercise I've flown up and down the little VFR corridor above
KSAN. It works easily enough with moving maps to show me the airspace
boundaries. I haven't tried it using a chart exclusively; I guess I
can put that on my list of practice exercises. The last time, ATC
called me on it, but I pointed out that it's on the chart and I was in
the corridor, and I didn't hear from them after that.

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