VFR Sectional Mural

Our airport terminal has a VFR Sectional Mural of the United States,
taking up one entire wall of the pilot lounge. I've searched online, but
can't find such a product. Does anyone know if it exists or where to
find it?

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:01:50 -0700, unicate wrote
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Our airport terminal has a VFR Sectional Mural of the United States,
taking up one entire wall of the pilot lounge. I've searched online, but
can't find such a product. Does anyone know if it exists or where to
find it?

Kyler Laird has a web site that contains hi-res scans of sectional
charts and the software to stitch them together. You can do a Google
Groups search, or perhaps he'll respond to this message thread.

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Our airport terminal has a VFR Sectional Mural of the United States,
taking up one entire wall of the pilot lounge. I've searched online, but
can't find such a product. Does anyone know if it exists or where to
find it?

Search for the JNCA-5 chart. It doesn't take up the whole wall but is good
size.
http://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/inf...ing_Chart.html

Painted or multiple images glued together? Some of these new flat bed
printers can put out some great stuff.

It is a shame that everybody at the airport died and none of the new
folks have any idea where or the mural came to be.

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Our airport terminal has a VFR Sectional Mural of the United States,
taking up one entire wall of the pilot lounge. I've searched online,
but
can't find such a product. Does anyone know if it exists or where to
find it?

"sfb" wrote in message news:m9eYe.28$EH.5@trnddc01...
Painted or multiple images glued together? Some of these new flat bed
printers can put out some great stuff.

It is a shame that everybody at the airport died and none of the new folks
have any idea where or the mural came to be.

Yeah, but it's so old certain areas says "Here dwell dragons".



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Our airport terminal has a VFR Sectional Mural of the United States,
taking up one entire wall of the pilot lounge. I've searched online, but
can't find such a product. Does anyone know if it exists or where to
find it?

Just individual sections of charts. Our airport has IFR sectionals to
make up such a map. They just trim the white parts off, then start
pasting. You'll notice that not everything matches up, due to trying to
map the curve of the earth on a flat sheet of paper.

I'm trying to do something similiar with VFR sectionals on one my living
room walls, more or less centered on the area I fly. Covers a good
section of the upper midwest.

Note that if the wall map you see really is of VFR sectionals, your FBO
must have some really tall walls. Mine starts with the northern Green
Bay sectional and ends with the southern chicago sectional, about 4
charts high. I have room for most of the northern parts of the Kansas,
St Louis, and Cincinnati sectionals at the bottom (anyone have any
unmarked expired sectionals of these they can part with?).
From the eastern end, I have the detriot and lake huron sectionals, and
the westernmost end has the twin cities northern chart, and below that
is a doorway, with parts of the TC and omaha charts going up to the
doorway.

I can only imagine what a full US map made of VFR sections would look
like, just HUGE!

John

John T wrote:

Just individual sections of charts. Our airport has IFR sectionals to
make up such a map. They just trim the white parts off, then start
pasting. You'll notice that not everything matches up, due to trying to
map the curve of the earth on a flat sheet of paper.

I'm trying to do something similiar with VFR sectionals on one my living
room walls, more or less centered on the area I fly. Covers a good
section of the upper midwest.

Yeah, I've done one on my wall that is JUST Arizona, and I love it. But
this one at the airport is the whole U.S., and they aren't full-size
sectionals or, as you said, it would never fit. I see you can buy a
"full set" of sectionals, 38 of them, for $200+ dollars, but again, they
would have to be reduced to fit all on one wall. We tried making one of
our area and some of CA and the surrounding area with one of those chart
*books*, but the pieces are only about 12 x 14, and the further out you
get, the less they match up. Just thought maybe there was a full U.S.
sectional mural available for purchase. Kind of surprised there isn't
.... would seem it would sell.

Thanks to all for responding. I'm going to keep digging for a little
while anyway.

http://www.pilotsbooks.com/wallcharts.htm

This might work. They have 3 chart sets that cover the entire US

VFR/IFR Planning charts
large JNC-A charts
larger JNC charts
largest
east on one side/ west on the other
40" x 36" each side
(full USA - 72" x 40")
scale - 1:3.4 million

airports, cities, VOR airways
special use airspace
mileage
no terrain features
$4.75 full USA - one chart
42" x 58"
scale - 1:3 million

multi color terrain
airports, elevations
cities, lakes, rivers
some roads
special use airspace
$5.75 full USA - on 3 charts
57" x 40" each chart
(full USA - 57" x 120")
scale - 1:2 million

multi color terrain
airports, elevations
cities, waterways, roads
special use airspace
$5.75




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John T wrote:

Just individual sections of charts. Our airport has IFR sectionals to
make up such a map. They just trim the white parts off, then start
pasting. You'll notice that not everything matches up, due to trying to
map the curve of the earth on a flat sheet of paper.

I'm trying to do something similiar with VFR sectionals on one my living
room walls, more or less centered on the area I fly. Covers a good
section of the upper midwest.

Yeah, I've done one on my wall that is JUST Arizona, and I love it. But
this one at the airport is the whole U.S., and they aren't full-size
sectionals or, as you said, it would never fit. I see you can buy a
"full set" of sectionals, 38 of them, for $200+ dollars, but again, they
would have to be reduced to fit all on one wall. We tried making one of
our area and some of CA and the surrounding area with one of those chart
*books*, but the pieces are only about 12 x 14, and the further out you
get, the less they match up. Just thought maybe there was a full U.S.
sectional mural available for purchase. Kind of surprised there isn't
... would seem it would sell.

Thanks to all for responding. I'm going to keep digging for a little
while anyway.

unicate wrote
Thanks to all for responding. I'm going to keep digging for a little
while anyway.

I'll bet that they are World Aeronautical Charts (WACs). I've done
whole wall WAC paste-ups before.

Bob Moore

unicate wrote:
Our airport terminal has a VFR Sectional Mural of the United States,
taking up one entire wall of the pilot lounge. I've searched online, but
can't find such a product. Does anyone know if it exists or where to
find it?

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