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Float Flyr

Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject: - now Compass Card

That is not a problem where 90% of the communities are coastal.  Every light

house is different and you get used to the different bays by shape...  It's

when you move inland and there are few communities, fewer still with water

towers that the fun begins.  Check us out on Google Earth...  One highway,

more or less east west.  Four or five major lakes in the interior and salt

water all round...  kinda hard to get lost..  I've been able to do it on the

ground, sort of.  It took hard work and dedication but we still ended up

where we intended to go about twelve hours late.  In the air fly a cardinal

point until you hit either the highway or salt water.  Once you do you will

know exactly where you are.



Noel



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Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:26 am Post subject: - now Compass Card

When I flew to California, I followed I-10 from Hondo, Texas to Yucca  

Valley, where I turned north, etc. When I say I use the GPS and the  

chart, I use them for guidance, knowing I've got a lake coming up  

here, a mountain there, or a town off to the left or right. My flight  

instructor told me to use the fence rows and roads as a pretty good  

guide for N-S and E-W, but when you get over Kentucky, all bets are  

off, as everything down there is based on winding roads and wandering  

fence rows.....easier to evade the ATF cops? I'm kidding, all you  

Kentuckians, just kidding. : )



Lynn Matteson

Kitfox IV Speedster, taildragger

Jabiru 2200, #2062, 622.1 hrs

Sensenich 62x46

Electroair direct-fire ignition system

Status: flying





On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Noel Loveys wrote:



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 No GPS (I generally leave it in the car) and a pencil line with a  

 2H on the

 VNC. I usually mark the magnetic headings I'll use on the chart, (VFR

 Navigation Chart)  but I fly by the track I visualize on the  

 ground.  I find

 when flying a compass bearing I fixate too much on the compass and not

 enough outside the plane.  If I visualize a track on the ground  

 then I spend

 a lot more time actually flying the plane as opposed to having the  

 plane fly

 me... If you know what I mean.  I also spend a lot more time  

 looking for

 other traffic and enjoying the flight.



 One of the things I have noticed is the Canadian VNC show water but  

 not

 islands in the ponds.  Without the islands marked a lot of the  

 ponds look

 completely different when flying over them.  Road maps for some  

 reason seem

 to have the islands showing so it is easier to locate ponds by  

 shape with

 the islands in them.



 Noel

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Float Flyr

Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:59 am Post subject: - now Compass Card

Around here they call the winding roads the way the cow came home.  If you look at Newfoundland on Google Earth you will find most of our hills and to an extent the ponds stretch roughly NNE/SSW with I think it is four major ponds (lakes) flowing east west in the interior of the island.



Noel



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From: Lynn Matteson <lynnmatt(at)jps.net>

Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: Re: - now Compass Card

To: kitfox-list(at)matronics.com

Received: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7:55 AM



--> Kitfox-List message posted by: Lynn Matteson <[url=/mc/compose?to=lynnmatt(at)jps.net]lynnmatt(at)jps.net[/url]>



When  I flew to California, I followed I-10 from Hondo, Texas to Yucca Valley, where I turned north, etc. When I say I use the GPS and the chart, I use them for guidance, knowing I've got a lake coming up here, a mountain there, or a town off to the left or right. My flight instructor told me to use the fence rows and roads as a pretty good guide for N-S and E-W, but when you get over Kentucky, all bets are off, as everything down there is based on winding roads and wandering fence rows.....easier to evade the ATF cops? I'm kidding, all you Kentuckians, just kidding. : )



Lynn Matteson

Kitfox IV Speedster, taildragger

Jabiru 2200, #2062, 622.1 hrs

Sensenich 62x46

Electroair direct-fire ignition system

Status: flying





On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Noel Loveys wrote:



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 No GPS (I generally leave it in the car) and a pencil line with a 2H on the

 VNC. I usually mark the magnetic headings I'll use on the chart, (VFR

 Navigation Chart)  but I fly by the track I visualize on the ground.  I find

 when flying a compass bearing I fixate too much on the compass and not

 enough outside the plane.  If I visualize a track on the ground then I spend

 a lot more time actually flying the plane as opposed to having the plane fly

 me... If you know what I mean.  I also spend a lot more time looking for

 other traffic and enjoying the flight.

 

 One of the things I have noticed is the Canadian VNC show water but not

 islands in the ponds.  Without the islands marked a lot of the ponds look

 completely different when flying over them.  Road maps  for some reason seem

 to have the islands showing so it is easier to locate ponds by shape with

 the islands in them.

 

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Tom Jones

Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 752
Location: Ellensburg, WA

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:34 am Post subject: Re: - now Compass Card

Attached are some pictures of my navigation landmarks.  When I see the big white mountain I am heading west.  When I see the jagged white mountain range I am headed north.  When I see the river canyon I am headed south.  When I see the wind mills I am headed east.  Sorry, I couldn't resist.  Do not archive

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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:06 am Post subject: - now Compass Card

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Float Flyr

Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:35 am Post subject: - now Compass Card

That white mountain is a lovely land mark!



Noel



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