First-hand video of a BRS deployment.

Scott writes:

I have a piece of old technology called a map that I use for primary
navigation (yes, I still draw my course on the chart for every
cross-country flight) and the GPS is used to give me a quick check of my
groundspeed and a quick check.

I get the impression that the only map that many newer pilots look at is the
one that glows in a small rectangle in the cockpit of the aircraft.

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On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:28:23 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:

Scott writes:

I have a piece of old technology called a map that I use for primary
navigation (yes, I still draw my course on the chart for every
cross-country flight) and the GPS is used to give me a quick check of my
groundspeed and a quick check.

I get the impression that the only map that many newer pilots look at is the
one that glows in a small rectangle in the cockpit of the aircraft.

Hell, no, mine don't glow! :-)

Ron "Far out, man!" Wanttaja

Nope...mine are made of paper and have as many folds as an accordion

Scott


Mxsmanic wrote:



I get the impression that the only map that many newer pilots look at is the
one that glows in a small rectangle in the cockpit of the aircraft.

Scott wrote
... [My maps] are made of paper and have as many folds as an accordion

Both my son and I thought one of the most difficult aviation skills to
master was folding and refolding charts while flying.

I take it back. We still don't have it mastered.

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:06:29 -0700, "Jon Woellhaf"
wrote:

Scott wrote
... [My maps] are made of paper and have as many folds as an accordion

Both my son and I thought one of the most difficult aviation skills to
master was folding and refolding charts while flying.

Try it in an open cockpit. Typically, it just ends up getting mashed under my
butt.... :-)

Ron "How do I clew this thing up" Wanttaja

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:06:29 -0700, "Jon Woellhaf"
wrote:

Scott wrote
... [My maps] are made of paper and have as many folds as an accordion
Both my son and I thought one of the most difficult aviation skills to
master was folding and refolding charts while flying.

Try it in an open cockpit. Typically, it just ends up getting mashed under my
butt.... :-)

Ron "How do I clew this thing up" Wanttaja

In my day we didn't have maps. We used IFD (I follow dinosaurs) rules.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Well, at least they had big droppings to follow You could follow
them at 1000 feet...

Scott


Dan wrote:

Ron Wanttaja wrote:

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:06:29 -0700, "Jon Woellhaf"

wrote:

Scott wrote

... [My maps] are made of paper and have as many folds as an
accordion

Both my son and I thought one of the most difficult aviation skills
to master was folding and refolding charts while flying.


Try it in an open cockpit. Typically, it just ends up getting mashed
under my
butt.... :-)

Ron "How do I clew this thing up" Wanttaja


In my day we didn't have maps. We used IFD (I follow dinosaurs) rules.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

I do use mine in an open cockpit! One thing I learned is to KEEP them
under my butt between check points. Also, keep it there when doing
aggressive slips on short final. In a Junior Ace, this creates a lot of
suction on the high side of the cockpit...had to walk off the approach
end at a fly in once to get my maps back

Scott


Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:06:29 -0700, "Jon Woellhaf"
wrote:


Scott wrote

... [My maps] are made of paper and have as many folds as an accordion

Both my son and I thought one of the most difficult aviation skills to
master was folding and refolding charts while flying.


Try it in an open cockpit. Typically, it just ends up getting mashed under my
butt.... :-)

Ron "How do I clew this thing up" Wanttaja

Jon Woellhaf wrote:
Scott wrote
... [My maps] are made of paper and have as many folds as an accordion

Both my son and I thought one of the most difficult aviation skills to
master was folding and refolding charts while flying.

I take it back. We still don't have it mastered.


Grasshopper;
You have not yet mastered map origami, you cannot class master status as
aviator yet.

"Mxsmanic" wrote

I get the impression that the only map that many newer pilots look at is
the
one that glows in a small rectangle in the cockpit of the aircraft.


No one becomes a pilot without the ability to read and navigate using a
paper map.