Blue Hauler & Firefly Bob:
It is interesting reading how others look at flying and navigating as we always can pick up new ideas.
Blue Hauler I also use maps for a lot of the flying we do, especially in areas that have very difficult landmarks for navigation, we use 25 N.M. check marks on our maps when flying in Africa or South America and record lat & long from our GPS receivers, then if something gets all screwed up we at least know where it went wrong. The Sahara desert is probably the very worst for VFR map reading as it is so vast. The only continent I have never flown over is Australia but I will before I finally retire. By the way GPS is the most reliable nav aid ever invented, we run at least two at all times. When I started flying we used the radio range as our nav aid for IFR then for many years we flew the Arctic using celestial navigation so to have evolved to todays navaids is truly a giant leap foward. Especially the glass cocpit I found it facinating when I trained on the fly by wire glass cockpit.
Anyhow I am happy to have the chance to exthange ideas with all you guys.
By the way any of you who live around London I quite often fly out of North Weald, in fact will be going over to Duxford at the end of the month to move a Cat to Lee on Solent.
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.
