Thread: Maintaining VFR altitudes when following N/S roads/rivers
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Old August 25th 08, 03:26 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]
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Default Maintaining VFR altitudes when following N/S roads/rivers
Ricky wrote in news:5d9f329e-0c99-4658-99a8-
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On Aug 24, 5:52*pm, "BT" wrote:

What you are doing is not pilotage.
Fly a straight line based on compass and wind correction computations.
Time between visual points, towns, bridges, etc to compute ground speed.
Correct the heading slightly based on "observations" from pilotage.

BT

Hmmm? I think what you are describing above is dead reckoning, not
pilotage.




Dead reckoning means no corections based on landmarks wahtsoever.


Bertie