china graphs?
Hi Scam77
I found that chinagraphs were useless and messy. Lines are smudgy and fat! Get a laminated map, harder to fold maybe, but get a set of Staedtler permanent Lumocolor 'S'. They can be wiped off the map with a bit of nail polish remover or any solvent like that, even after shave. During flight when your hands are nice and sweaty, your important track,drift lines, way points etc will not be wiped off by accident.
Small/medium bag is all you need. A watch with very large and clear readable nos. A shirt or jacket with handy pockets so you dont loose your pens/protractor/ruler/crp5 when you most need them ie. when you have to plan your divertion quickly. How many times did I loose stuff under the seat when I most needed it because the aircraft did not have handy pockets to hand. GPS not necessary, for now,as it is only an aid and you should be very proficient at nav. with map and watch. Good knee board with plastic pockets so you can look up frequencies and other useful info you may want to have with you at all times. I found all the TT books great and ended up buying loads more to help with bits I wasn't sure of, especially met. but that's just me. Jeremy M Pratt books for PPL are quite good I found. PPL confuser is a GREAT revision aid, did it 5 times before test.
Only got a pair of Avcom Headsets after PPL, as the school always have some to use, so not strictly necessary, but the school ones are not always reliable, even though they should be!
Hope this hepls a bit
KiloB