Maintaining VFR altitudes when following N/S roads/rivers

"Wilhelm" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in
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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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BT writes:

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.

just following a meandering river or road is not pilotage.

Pilotage is supposedly navigation by visual landmarks, which
presumably includes roads and rivers. Successful pilotage implies
that you can navigate
with just the visual features and a chart. If you are using
calculations to
determine your position, it's more like dead reckoning. I do try to
navigate
that way, too, but periodically I like to practice navigation by
visual features on the land below alone.

If you are such a scholar on navigation, why are you asking dumb assed
questions?


Wassamatta, maxie, runnninga away from the bertster? Decided to pick on
Maxie instead?

;(



Bertie