Knowing when you are overflying something

On Apr 18, 1:40 pm, 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...

Pick up the monitor, and mark the spot under it on your desk with a
pencil.

"Al G" wrote in message
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Our EAA chapter has a blue tarp that we use as a target for "flour
bombing".
Actually we use gypsum in an ice cream bag. The tarp remains unscathed
after
many years of use. In fact, standing directly on the aim point might be
the safest spot.

Al G

Apparently not:
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photoga...s_reporter.wmv

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"Al G" wrote in message
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Our EAA chapter has a blue tarp that we use as a target for "flour
bombing".
Actually we use gypsum in an ice cream bag. The tarp remains unscathed
after
many years of use. In fact, standing directly on the aim point might be
the safest spot.

Al G

Apparently not:
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photoga...s_reporter.wmv

--
Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail
When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.

Whoa. Well, we do drop from a little higher alt. (500' min).

Looks like they missed him with the flour bombs, and hit him with the
aircraft.

Now hitting things with the aircraft I can do...

Al G

"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,

There is, idiot.

m

Dudley Henriques wrote:
"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
news
In article ,
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.
You roll inverted and look straight "up". ;)

Actually Orval, I've used this method on occasion :-)) This is the exact
procedure for a vertical show reversal using a Reverse half Cuban .
Dudley Henriques


LOL You showoff!

Cheers

"DR" wrote in message
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Dudley Henriques wrote:
"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
news
In article ,
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.
You roll inverted and look straight "up". ;)

Actually Orval, I've used this method on occasion :-)) This is the exact
procedure for a vertical show reversal using a Reverse half Cuban .
Dudley Henriques

LOL You showoff!

Cheers

:-)))
DH