Sectional Usage Poll

"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote in message
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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


TAC - North Up (I know the local area)
Sectional - Both (Direction Up Enroute, North Up Over Checkpoints)
GPS - CDI Mode
Moving Map - Direction Up

Still new enough that I haven't settled on the best way to do some things...

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ

North up makes graphics, text, and numbers easier to read. You'll find as you
advance to instrument training you'll keep your approach plates north up, also.

North up, definitely... There is nothing wrong with drawing lines on
the chart... I have charts that have all kinds of colored lines on
them... While I now use GPS as my primary nav tool, I always keep a
chart open and the #1 VOR tracking my progress so that when the
inevitable GPS meltdown occurs (inside or outside of the cockpit) I
will simply keep on truckin'...


Denny

Track up. I have more important things to focus on in flight than whether
I'm supposed to turn left or right.

Of course the correlary is that I am way-to-often telling tower that I am
15 miles West when I am really 15 miles East and vice versa...



"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote in
:

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

"Judah" wrote in message
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Track up. I have more important things to focus on in flight than whether
I'm supposed to turn left or right.

Once you are in the groove with north-upping the map, you don't consciously
do the mental twisting. You don't even think - it's just natural - so
"focus" is not an issue. For me, anyway.

--
Jim Fisher

North Up.... When I was getting my helicopter rating I didn't know we were
going to be flying XC that day and didn't bring my knee board so the CFI
would hold the chart in his lap and kept handing it back to me track up. I
finly told him if he didn't stop handing it to me that way I was going to
stop and let him out.

I've always been an "oriented to the flight path" kind of guy. I have no
problem reading things upside down, in fact, when I would arrive to do
an airshow somewhere, if there were a gang of us waiting to check in to
the motel or hotel at the same time, I used to get everybody laughing
like hell by signing my name on the register upside down and backwards
so the clerk could read it normally. It got to be kind of an "event"
where the guys would actually wait around to see it happen :-)) For the
sectionals; I like things to be where they should be appearing if flying
VFR. The "north people" are fine doing it their way as well. I think
it's just a matter of personal preference really.
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/CFI Retired
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"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 hold sectionals north up; GPS moving maps I set for north up en route and
track up for approaches, unless I have an EFIS type display, then I always
use 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

most pilots NEED track up...
navigators use north up..
Master Navigators don't care..

BT

"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 orientate to the direction of flight so that I can relate visual land marks to
where they are shown on the map.

Ron

"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