Long flight plan

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message ...
"David Rind" wrote in message
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1) What do people like to use for flight planning for something
like this? Laying multiple sectionals on the floor next to each
other seems a bit painful.

When a sectional doesn't include enough real estate, get yourself a World
Aeronautical Chart.

Well, for planning a Boston to Key West trip, I'm not entirely sure
that 3 WAC charts is a big improvement on 5 sectionals spread over
the floor. Still rather unwieldy.

If one is going to plan on paper, the thing is to buy the low-altitude
planning chart. If planning an E-W trip across the middle of the
thing, buy two, they're cheap and can be reused until they fall apart.

FWIW, I don't like the WAC charts; they don't have the three letter
abbreviations for airports, which makes it harder to relate the
chart to the database in a GPS. And, if one really needs info
about the terrain for some reason, they're not sufficiently detailed.

If one just wants some VFR charts as backup to IFR enroutes, they're
OK I guess. We buy them sometimes when the choice is between 4
sectionals vs 1 WAC.

OTOH, I don't like Aeroplanner Tripticks either. They're a great
idea, but on long trips (~900 mile-ish) it's just not uncommon
for us to have to detour outside the area they cover. I did a
set for our CFI and friend on one of his last long trips, and
he came back w/ the same evaluation. Just a modest detour for
afternoon t-storms took him off the edge of the triptick.

Cheers,
Sydney