North-Up versus Direction-Up?

toad wrote:

That's a good description. I prefer the map picture to stay
constant. It allows me to pick up map features easier with a quick
glance at the map. The shape of things doesn't change depending on my
heading.

What kind of features are you looking for, and why? I'm normally
concerned with where the airports or landing areas are in the direction
I'm going. They look the same regardless of the map orientation


I can use the glider icon to easily identify relative direction to
items in reference to fwd/aft and left/right.

That's how I did it when I was using a paper map, except I had to
imagine where the glider was.


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Eric Greenwell wrote:
What kind of features are you looking for, and why? I'm normally
concerned with where the airports or landing areas are in the direction
I'm going. They look the same regardless of the map orientation

Landing sites in the database are high priority, but also navigation
features like mountains, lakes, rivers and roads are what I want to
see. If I can't easily see a landing site directly, I want to know
what kind of terrain features point it out.

Todd Smith
3S

toad wrote:
Eric Greenwell wrote:
What kind of features are you looking for, and why? I'm normally
concerned with where the airports or landing areas are in the direction
I'm going. They look the same regardless of the map orientation

Landing sites in the database are high priority, but also navigation
features like mountains, lakes, rivers and roads are what I want to
see. If I can't easily see a landing site directly, I want to know
what kind of terrain features point it out.

Is this sort of a distrust of the GPS? It will take you there, and it's
only the last few miles where actually picking out the airport becomes
useful.

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA
* Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly

* Updated! "Transponders in Sailplanes" http://tinyurl.com/y739x4
* New Jan '08 - sections on Mode S, TPAS, ADS-B, Flarm, more

* "A Guide to Self-launching Sailplane Operation" at www.motorglider.org

On Dec 17, 9:34*pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
toad wrote:
Eric Greenwell wrote:
What kind of features are you looking for, and why? I'm normally
concerned with where the airports or landing areas are in the direction
I'm going. They look the same regardless of the map orientation

Landing sites in the database are high priority, but also navigation
features like mountains, lakes, rivers and roads are what I want to
see. *If I can't easily see a landing site directly, I want to know
what kind of terrain features point it out.

Is this sort of a distrust of the GPS? It will take you there, and it's
only the last few miles where actually picking out the airport becomes
useful.

It's more that I like to actually see things than distrust per se.
But I do prefer to get a visual sighting before arrival. Especially
for low final glides. I also like to sight things for later
reference.

Todd