Sectional Usage Poll

Sectional: North up
GPS: North up until I bought into the Archer partnership. Everyone else
likes track up, and it's a pain to reconfigure it just for me every time I
fly, so now it's track up.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
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Sectional -- North Up
[But when I'm hiking, the topo is oriented track-up]
GPS -- Track Up


"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote in message
...
I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold
it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it
along their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which
you
are flying?

TIA

Sectional North up
GPS track up

"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote in message
...
I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it
along
their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which you
are flying?

TIA

North up.


"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote in message
...
I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it
along their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which you
are flying?

TIA

Sectional and GPS: North up

For the pilot who use Track Up, do you turn your approach charts too? I'm
guessing not, but just trying to understand why (or why not).

Hilton

Because approach plates have courses printed on them.

Bob Gardner

"Hilton" wrote in message
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Sectional and GPS: North up

For the pilot who use Track Up, do you turn your approach charts too? I'm
guessing not, but just trying to understand why (or why not).

Hilton

North up, on both the chart and the moving-map GPS.

(It's an extremely useful habit, especially paying off when ATC asks where
you are relative to a particular navaid, and you can immediately tell your
relative location, without swiveling your chart around.)

-Jack


"Daniel L. Lieberman" writes:

I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it along
their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which you
are flying?

TIA

Oriented to flight path... my old instructor always said that was the way he
did it during their bombing runs over Germany in the 1940's

Rob


"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote in message
...
I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it
along
their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which you
are flying?

TIA

I tend to use North-Up when I am flying using other means (GPS, VOR ),
while using the sectional only for monitoring progress. I use heading-up
when I am actively looking at the section for navigation.


"RobsSanta" wrote in
news:0i%xd.69968$DC.32060@fed1read03:

Oriented to flight path... my old instructor always said that was the
way he did it during their bombing runs over Germany in the 1940's

Rob


"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote in message
...
I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always
hold it with North up even when they are flying South rather than
orienting it
along
their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in
which you are flying?

TIA

what's a sectional?


"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote in message
...
I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it
along their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which you
are flying?

TIA

I keep it north up. I have been using maps (topo, av, naut, etc.) for
over 25 years so I visualize my position and heading over the physical
map. Some people have dificulty with "mental orientation", I do not.

Jon Wanzer
CP ASEL / IA
AGI IGI (CFI / CFII soon-to-be)
San Jose, CA

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:33:50 -0800, "Daniel L. Lieberman"
wrote:

I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it along
their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which you
are flying?

TIA