Night VFR following highways

In rec.aviation.piloting wrote:
On Feb 1, 1:35?pm, wrote:
In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:

Is it a bad idea to fly VFR at night and navigate by following highways? ?At
night outside large cities, there doesn't seem to be much else that's visible.
It seems to me that if you can clearly see the highway, it can guide you and
you can get a good idea of where you are with respect to terrain, so it should
work. ?Are there hidden dangers in this? ?Do night VFR pilots ever/often
navigate by following highways? ?What other forms of visual navigation are
usable at night?

About the only reason to follow highways (other than it just happens to
go where you want to go) at night is you are guaranteed that there is
nothing directly above the highway (such as a mountain peak), which is
handy for going through things like passes on dark nights and areas
dotted with high peaks.

However, the only way one would know visually that they are really
over most highways at night is from the real lights of real traffic.

Since there is no real traffic on your simulated highways with real
headlights, why would you care?

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Unless the highway goes through a tunnel....... : (

You're behind the power curve.

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Jim Pennino

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