BH - do you HAVE to be insulting in the way you change peoples screen name or is this just your juvenile sense of humour - I could do something similar but have so far restrained myself!
From my experience the Aus met does not get its forecasts as wrong as you seem to indicate and so timings for points closer than 50 miles or so should not be out by more than a couple of mins or so unless you are using the wrong days forecast, even then correct application of ETA updates should allow you to make half decent forecasts for time to turning point.
Also, by using the 'distance' markers is STILL as I pointed out in my last post, using time markers anyway, just instead of knowing the time between points and then working out the distance to mark on the map you are marking a distance then working out the time between points, hopefully you STILL teach that you know when to start looking for the marker point by looking at the watch to know when that point is comming up, or do you just leave it to luck?
An additional point is that, as you have said, using time means that the markers can becloser together on some legs than others due to wind, but you are then doing checks at regular time intervals, what you seem to be suggesting could in theory mean you have a nav check every 6 mins on one leg (fine), but every 20 mins on another leg (not so great), admittedly this would be a very strong wind, but you have talked about WORK, and sometimes then you do fly with very strong head/tailwinds!
[ 26 October 2001: Message edited by: foxmoth ]
[ 26 October 2001: Message edited by: foxmoth ]
[ 27 October 2001: Message edited by: foxmoth ]