Knowing when you are overflying something

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Why not? You can never be too aware of your situation.


Look at what's talking.


Bertie

On Apr 19, 7:29 am, Erik wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
Maxwell writes:

Why would a pilot care?

When reporting position, or when following instructions to "cross XYZ at
6000," or whatever. Or when giving the location of a family in distress next
to their SUV below.

As its mad mixedup who never gets into an aircraft the situation will
never arise.
The golfball drops get first prize

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Maxwell writes:

Why would a pilot care?

When reporting position, or when following instructions to "cross XYZ at
6000," or whatever. Or when giving the location of a family in distress
next
to their SUV below.


It's never that critical if you are reporting a position to some form of
ATC. Anything within a couple miles will do on VFR. IFR you have VOR and
DME, and ATC understands their accuracy.

Estimating a ground position would usually be given from a ground reference.
Using road section lines you can estimate to a 1/2 or 1/4 mile pretty well.
Just report something like 2.5 miles west of the river, railroad tracks,
general store, etc.

The only time you need to look straight down is while skydiving. Then you
are looking through an open door, and with very little experience you can
judge to a couple hundred feet from 10,500. The parachute does the rest.

Maxwell writes:

The only time you need to look straight down is while skydiving. Then you
are looking through an open door, and with very little experience you can
judge to a couple hundred feet from 10,500. The parachute does the rest.

I think I'll pass on that. Like many real pilots, I'm afraid of heights.

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Mxsmanic wrote:

Maxwell writes:


The only time you need to look straight down is while skydiving. Then you
are looking through an open door, and with very little experience you can
judge to a couple hundred feet from 10,500. The parachute does the rest.


I think I'll pass on that. Like many real pilots, I'm afraid of heights.


Somehow I'm not empathising any more.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Maxwell writes:

The only time you need to look straight down is while skydiving. Then you
are looking through an open door, and with very little experience you can
judge to a couple hundred feet from 10,500. The parachute does the rest.

I think I'll pass on that. Like many real pilots, I'm afraid of heights.


Well hell, that's certainly no surprize, but it was a complete answer to you
question. If you don't like it, take it over to rec.aviation.student where
it belonged in the first place. Cuz you will never be a pilot either, and
until you do, you won't even be a student.

[Crap snipped]

Your tenacity is astounding, second only to your inventiveness to bait the
unsuspecting.
What do you do in real life?
Nevermind, just a rhetorical question.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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How do you know when you are exactly overflying a specific spot on the
ground?
It's it just a matter of knowing your particular aircraft, or are there
tricks
that can help to determine this? I know you can look off the tip of your
wing
to see if you're abeam something (such as a runway), but how can you tell
when
you're right over something? I presume there's no way to look straight
down
from most aircraft, and it seems like the view over the nose is often
several
miles away.



Hey stupid, why do you cross post everything? Are you so half whitted you
don't even know where to ask you silly assed questions?

Maxwell writes:

Hey stupid, why do you cross post everything?

I don't cross-post everything, but in the case of this question, I thought
there might be more answeres in rec.aviation.piloting, but the question might
also be of interest to students.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Maxwell writes:

Hey stupid, why do you cross post everything?

I don't cross-post everything, but in the case of this question, I thought
there might be more answeres in rec.aviation.piloting, but the question
might
also be of interest to students.


Do you really think there are certified pilots around here trying to figure
out how to tell when they are over something. Geeez!