Sectional Usage Poll

You actually wrote this, and GAVE YOUR NAME!

Has it occured to you that your wife will get mail from nearly everyone who
reads this who is not equipt with a, ah, kickstand, suggesting yours
(kickstand, that is) be removed.

e discussed this matter at length, you are quite
right about the generality. ( I am however quite wrong, my wife points
out)

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:19:14 GMT, "ShawnD2112"
wrote:

In the interest of opening my own fuel vessel and passing out the matches,
I'll offer that a book I read addresses this issue specifically from a
gender perspective. The research showed that men will typically orient
north up and do the mental gymnastics in their heads - the male brain is
built such that this is a strength. Women's brains are apparently wired
differently and don't cope with the 3-D spatial analysis as well and so they

will typically orient along the track and turn the map every which way,
keeping the left on the left and so on.
Jon Wanzer
CP ASEL / IA
AGI IGI (CFI / CFII soon-to-be)
San Jose,CA

"ShawnD2112" wrote in message
The research showed that men will typically orient
north up and do the mental gymnastics in their heads - the male brain is
built such that this is a strength. Women's (. . . )
will typically orient along the track

Not surprisingly, research shows that high wingers orient the map and low
wingers north-up it.

--
Jim Fisher

"Judah" wrote in message
. ..
Track up. I have more important things to focus on in flight than whether
I'm supposed to turn left or right.

Once you are in the groove with north-upping the map, you don't consciously
do the mental twisting. You don't even think - it's just natural - so
"focus" is not an issue. For me, anyway.

--
Jim Fisher

In article ,
"ShawnD2112" wrote:

In the interest of opening my own fuel vessel and passing out the matches,
I'll offer that a book I read addresses this issue specifically from a
gender perspective. The research showed that men will typically orient
north up and do the mental gymnastics in their heads - the male brain is
built such that this is a strength. Women's brains are apparently wired
differently and don't cope with the 3-D spatial analysis as well and so they
will typically orient along the track and turn the map every which way,
keeping the left on the left and so on.

Of course there are always exceptions so you don't all have to individually
respond to say this doesn't apply to you.

According to my sources, USAF Navs for heavy aircraft are (were?) taught
north-up. F-111 WSO's were taught track-up.

--
Bob Noel
looking for a sig the lawyers will like

North Up.... When I was getting my helicopter rating I didn't know we were
going to be flying XC that day and didn't bring my knee board so the CFI
would hold the chart in his lap and kept handing it back to me track up. I
finly told him if he didn't stop handing it to me that way I was going to
stop and let him out.

most pilots NEED track up...
navigators use north up..
Master Navigators don't care..

BT

"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote in message
...
I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it
along their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which you
are flying?

TIA

I orientate to the direction of flight so that I can relate visual land marks to
where they are shown on the map.

Ron

"Daniel L. Lieberman" wrote:

I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it along
their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which you
are flying?

TIA

Chart: I learned track up, and now do it both ways. If I'm using the
chart (esp at night) for reading frequencies and such, I will twist it
North up. When using it more directly for navigation, I'll do track up.

GPS - I used to prefer "desired track up", which is like track up but
doesn't swivel when I turn. However, during an approach this can
produce unexpected reorientations of the map at sharp turns, so I now
do track up.

Jose
--
Freedom. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

A) she stays away from USENET
B) she is sitting next to me
C) after 13 years of being together and almost 12 of them married, I
think she already knows me well enough.



Jon Wanzer
CP ASEL / IA
AGI IGI (CFI / CFII soon-to-be)
San Jose,CA

On 21 Dec 2004 22:18:07 GMT, emove (AJW) wrote:

You actually wrote this, and GAVE YOUR NAME!

Has it occured to you that your wife will get mail from nearly everyone who
reads this who is not equipt with a, ah, kickstand, suggesting yours
(kickstand, that is) be removed.

e discussed this matter at length, you are quite
right about the generality. ( I am however quite wrong, my wife points
out)

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:33:50 -0800, "Daniel L. Lieberman"
wrote:

I have been advised that some people when using a sectional always hold it
with North up even when they are flying South rather than orienting it along
their flight path. This is an option on moving map GPS systems.

Do you a) keep North up or b) orient the map in the direction in which you
are flying?

Track up. Which is also how I configure the GPS.