Nav Bag essentials
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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-sunscreen
-beef jerky
-aeroguard
-Imodium (stops the runs - community food)
-Stemital (stops you vomiting - hangovers)
-Painkillers (refer above)
-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
)
-beef jerky
-aeroguard
-Imodium (stops the runs - community food)
-Stemital (stops you vomiting - hangovers)
-Painkillers (refer above)
-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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- 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 piss
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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!!
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!!
after the event...
You've all got it wrong
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 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.
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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!
Gone Loco.......................
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!
Gone Loco.......................
