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Old 30th April 2003 | 23:35
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FlyingForFun

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Must just be me then? Don't have my charts to hand, but I seem to recall it took several dog-legs and altitude changes to get around the various bits of Class B/D (and I think a bit of C as well). The chart shows one huge area of yellow, with very few features to help confirm your location (although I was fortunate enough to spot a large freeway which was marked on the chart). And whoever it was that I'd planned on using for flight following didn't want to know!

Probably didn't help that this came at the end of a 4-hour flight in poor viz and moderate turbulence, in a type which was 50% faster than I was used to. And that no one anywhere near where I was based knew the area, so I had to rely on the charts without the benefit of local knowledge.

Fun? Yes! Educational? Absolutely! But I still think whoever designed it was on drugs!

FFF
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