Nav Bag essentials

[Captain Fun]

G'day all, here's one to have a bit of fun with. Just wondering what you all think are nav bag essentials beyond the obvious clipboard and water bottle.

For me, Ipod and handheld GPS are top of the list, but i've also found it suspicious that a Picture Magazine fits perfectly into most size bags floating around...

Let us know what you think :ok:

CF

[Hugh Jarse]

Toilet paper.

Trust me:8

[VH-FTS]

Make sure you don't leave a thumb on the radio transmit switch when you're flicking through the Picture mag ;)

[THE CONTRACTOR]

Fly Swatt and the ol Glenn 20.

:8

[Time Bomb Ted]

Piddle Pack or empty Gatorade bottle.

[The Messiah]

Panadol and Quik-eze

[Atlas Shrugged]

Nav bag ????????

Doesn't anyone use a fag packet anymore?

[Howard Hughes]

Wads of cash...;)

[Mr.Buzzy]

Frangas.

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[BGQ]

Whaaaat????

Nobody has mentioned condoms yet ????;) ;) ;)

[UnderneathTheRadar]

Whaaaat????
Nobody has mentioned condoms yet ????;) ;) ;)

Ummm, yes, right above you....

[Transition Layer]

These days the iPod is a go/no go item as far as I'm concerned!!!

[rmcdonal]

Hell I have trouble fitting my daps and an ersa in there. Let alone the stuff on the Shields list. :eek:
:}

[maxgrad]

LOOK UP!


sorry for shouting:O

one of those fly net head hat thingies

[Chadzat]

a parachute

[bundybear]

An up to date C.V. You just never know!

[Hugh Jarse]

BGQ, you must be a sprog. Mr. Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy already mentioned the "Party Hats, with the coloured tips":}

Mr. Shield. you a very funny guy:}

Capt. Hugh Jarse: DSO, VD, BSA and SIDECAR, POQADCB, TBVD and SCAR:8

[Mr.Buzzy]

BGQ....... Velcro gloves?

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[Rostov]

The essentials.
-Spare pack of durries
-Hip flask with the good stuff
-600ml bottle of coke
-Alarm clock that fits on the dashboard
-furry animal/dice with string and suction cap.
-Approach charts for your destination (Alt if you remember)
-If you are well connected a small handgun helps alot in many various situations.
I think I am ready to go then!!!!
oops, nearly forgot my A5 folder of porn.
DONE:cool:

[Enema Bandit's Dad]

The Enema Bandit left his bag open at home once and I saw a blow up doll in there. Says it wasn't his.

[Lodown]

I haven't looked in my nav bag since 1982. Sometime in 1984 I forgot what I used to have in there. This thread made me look.

Someone left the storm window open in a rainshower and the nav bag sat in the soggy carpet for a while, so there is now a nice green layer on the bottom. A little dig through the growth resulted in a couple of charts that fell apart (at least, I think they were charts), a clump that seems to resemble an old crash comic, my whizz-wheel flight computer (I'd wondered where that went) which might be a museum piece by now, a pair of foggles (why?) still in decent condition, a lunch wrapper, a half-read novel still with the dog-eared page that I'd read to, but not in much shape to continue, and a couple of other aviation gizzmos that I thought I couldn't do without. Oh! And one of those plastic square protractor thingies so essential to accurate navigation.

[Capt. On Heat]

Can of beer. As soon as you're duty's finished, make sure ops can't :ok: get you to extend!

[ThoughtCrime]

My framed university degree, and 1st year physics notes :}

TC

[FlugWeasel]

Small container of airspeed ... always bad news when you run low on airspeed.

[disco_air]

You've all forgotten your ASIC :rolleyes:

...Disco

[Avgas172]

Thanks for your most amusing contributions chaps (and chapesses) and lodown I too still have the square protractor thingy (that I used whilst doing Bob Taits Theory course recently) . But seriously I decided to see why my nav bag was so heavy and discovered an army type compass and spare handheld vertex pro something or other, a fuel drainer with screwdriver end (for removing cowlings), spare biro in metal case, whizz wheel in working order (never did work out how to use that) an electronic calculator ($2 from woollies) and a leatherman do everything gizmo that has never seen daylight. All this and the various charts and kneeboard attachments, pencils, ersa, VFG and other stuff that I never seem to use ... seriously how the hell would I ever be able to lift off in a Jab with full fuel and 2 up?
Oh yes and a garmin 196 and associated trinketery (got in a second hand store in Cairns for $500) not really in the nav bag but. :confused:

[bjm367-80]

-sunscreen
-beef jerky
-aeroguard
-Imodium (stops the runs - community food):\
-Stemital (stops you vomiting - hangovers):yuk:
-Painkillers (refer above):bored:
-cash (refer reason for Imodium)
-hip flash (good to scare pax)
-mini LCD DVD player
-Blackadder DVD (refer above)
-GPS (takes up less space that maps/ERSA/JEPPS)
-rubber gloves (clean vomit etc/refer below)
-lube (travel bat for autopilot equipped a/c)
-tissues (refer above)
-stubbie cooler (pepsi/inflight bevs

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[disco_air]

....and that'd be all in an ADM smurf bag would it? :}

...Disco

[olderairhead]

In SE Asia IMODIUM and heaps of it! Especially INDIA! :sad:

Anywhere else AFL season fixture to help in submitting your tips! :}

Nothing else really matters. :ok:

[TooFiddy]

iPod
mini-speakers/mini-woofer for iPod
wall-charger for iPod
device for linking iPod audio into headset audio
Pringles
T3 magazine
pocket thesaurus
mobile phone
bluetooth headset
ear plugs
eyeshades from 1st class
digital egg-timer
mouthwash
digital camera for cool pics of RVSM head-to-head
laptop
list of one-liners
Austin Powers teeth
colouring-in book
crayons
franger
back-up franger
emergency franger
space for bottle of duty-free pissNo Jepps/DAPS because the company provides.... :ok:

[distracted cockroach]

And a screwed up bit of paper with radio broadcast frequencies written on it.
And a road atlas.
Lots of "sani-coms" (to wipe off the germs- you never know where the previous pilot has been!)
Numerous pens, all from different hotels, none of which work.
One of those little sewing kits from a hotel - god knows why.
Several screwed up tea and coffee sachets from a hotel.
A "chap-stick" that you can only get anything out of by sticking your little finger into it.
Several individually wrapped mints from the resturant on the last over-night.
One of those folder thingies with the clear pockets, filled with stuff-that-might-be-useful-some-day, but never is, with a Boeing/Pratt and Witney/Airbus/Cessna/SAAB/Squadron (insert preference here) sticker on the cover.
The longer you fly, the smaller your nav bag gets as you get sick of carrying round a whole bunch of useless cak that never gets used!!

[What time is ECT?]

box of matches to remove incriminating evidence...
ECT?

[ascj]

Now i can't figure out how to bring a post with photo from another thread so your all just going to have to check it out for yourselves. it's worth a look.

The post is in Rotorheads, rotorheads around the world photogallery, post no 2105 by Steve 76.

Now if i could just figure out how to fit that under the seat of the Robbie.

[The Gimp]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i61/thegimpo/100_10481.jpg

Is this the one?

What about a bottle opener when all you can buy are those fancy bottles that aren't twisties.

[LocoDriver]

And, if you are a flying instructor..............

List of club members so you have their phone numbers handy
so's you can phone then when they bust airspace...

AIP, so you can radio 'what time is ect?' the evening civil twilight times
when he is VFR'ing across the darkening sky, 'cause he fogot HIS AIP!

Airline timetables, so you can get home from beyond when the weather
turns too nasty for the bugsmasher.

Credit card for the above sortie.

A most interesting, educational, and hilarous thread!

:ok: :ok:

Gone Loco.......................:E

[ZK-DAN]

...a bag of freshly roasted and ground coffee...a mini plunger...thermo cup for said plunged coffee...did I mention coffee?:eek:

[TurboOtter]

Porn
Water
No Doze

[ITCZ]

You did the NT News too, eh?