Knowing when you are overflying something

Bingo, you've discovered our dirty little secret! Oh shucks. Oh well, no
pilots here, just a bunch of wannabees who can't give straight answers to
inane questions, sorry you had to discover this. Hopefully you will stop
asking all these questions of people who are obviously not worth to answer
you. Do let the door hit your ass on the way out.


"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Maxwell writes:

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

Sometimes I wonder if there are any pilots here at all.

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The more typical way is to look at section lines (i.e roads and feild
bounderies). When 2 intersecting roads are pointed directlty at you
then you are over the intersection of the two roads.

Basic line geomeotry. It is not hard to tell when a road is pointed
directly at you.

Brian

In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic is a Troll wrote:
How do you know when you are exactly overflying a specific spot on the ground?

Nordon made a device for just this reason...

No, they didn't.

Nordon made a device to predict when to drop an object based on
altitude, speed, wind conditions, and the aerodynamic properties
of the object dropped, such that when you drop the object it lands
on a specific point.

--
Jim Pennino

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Brian writes:

The more typical way is to look at section lines (i.e roads and feild
bounderies). When 2 intersecting roads are pointed directlty at you
then you are over the intersection of the two roads.

Basic line geomeotry. It is not hard to tell when a road is pointed
directly at you.

It should work perfectly--provided that two convenient roads or other lines
happen to intersect at exactly the position you are overflying.

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Russ and/or Martha Oppenheim wrote:
Fly an ultralight with no floor, and look straight down.

Referred to colloquially as a "hang glider". :P

TheSmokingGnu

Mxsmanic wrote:

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.

Go inverted and look straight up.

In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:
Brian writes:

The more typical way is to look at section lines (i.e roads and feild
bounderies). When 2 intersecting roads are pointed directlty at you
then you are over the intersection of the two roads.

Basic line geomeotry. It is not hard to tell when a road is pointed
directly at you.

It should work perfectly--provided that two convenient roads or other lines
happen to intersect at exactly the position you are overflying.

Or you are in control of the airplane and make it go exactly over
the road intersection.

--
Jim Pennino

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On Apr 19, 4:19 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote innews
Maxwell writes:

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

Sometimes I wonder if there are any pilots here at all.

Bwawhahwhahwh!

Like you'd know the difference.

Has he considered how most of the posters here have no problems with
each others posts?

And yet Mxsmanics posts cause great merriment amongst most here.

The mark of some-one out of their depth

Mark wrote:


Go inverted and look straight up.


There's that damn echo again.

george wrote in
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On Apr 19, 4:19 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote
innews
Maxwell writes:

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

Sometimes I wonder if there are any pilots here at all.

Bwawhahwhahwh!

Like you'd know the difference.

Has he considered how most of the posters here have no problems with
each others posts?

And yet Mxsmanics posts cause great merriment amongst most here.

The mark of some-one out of their depth


I think he's in just the right depth, myself. Over his head.


Bertie