VFR map folding
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From: Oop North, UK
First clear a BIG space on the floor to start.
I then fold it in 3 N/S, For the Southern one you can usually fold a lot of the Channel into the bit that will be hidden for much of the time. Then concertina it trying to leave the bits you use most visible and away from the creases.
I then fold it in 3 N/S, For the Southern one you can usually fold a lot of the Channel into the bit that will be hidden for much of the time. Then concertina it trying to leave the bits you use most visible and away from the creases.
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From: UK
Havent got around to trying it yet but this looked good last time this topic came up.
http://www.nodomainname.co.uk/duncanof.htm
http://www.nodomainname.co.uk/duncanof.htm
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From: UK
Best way is to fold it as best you can so that all the creases are good and flexible and that you have a small enough area so that it fits on Kneeboard. Then simply select an airfield that is on the bit of the map you can see when it's all folded up and base your aircraft there! 
(sorry think this might have been a reply here before, but it made me laugh and I couldn't resist reposting!)
(sorry think this might have been a reply here before, but it made me laugh and I couldn't resist reposting!)
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From: London
Is there a particular reason the CAA don't issue unlaminated charts? My Aussie PPL was done with paper charts - much easier to fold and refold, they fold smaller, easier to mark with pencil, easier to add notes for each flight, easier to add permanent highlights where necessary. I'm finding these laminated charts really hard work.
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From: Cambridge, England, EU
I've been taught two methods:
(1) The RAF method. Before flight, tear or cut out the section of the map you're going to use for that flight. Throw the rest away. Repeat for each flight - no folding necessary.
(2) A method an examiner or CFI (I forget who exactly) explained to me a few years ago:
(a) Fold the map. Somehow. Anyhow. At random.
(b) Choose an airfield roughly in the middle of the visible part of the map.
(c) Move there, and use that as your base.
(1) The RAF method. Before flight, tear or cut out the section of the map you're going to use for that flight. Throw the rest away. Repeat for each flight - no folding necessary.
(2) A method an examiner or CFI (I forget who exactly) explained to me a few years ago:
(a) Fold the map. Somehow. Anyhow. At random.
(b) Choose an airfield roughly in the middle of the visible part of the map.
(c) Move there, and use that as your base.
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d) use an electronic version of the chart
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From: Fareham
My original flying instructor simply cut out a section of chart that extended about 50 miles on each side of our home base. As far as I know we nevr fell off the edge.
It worked for him, but I have never quite had the courage to follow suite.
It worked for him, but I have never quite had the courage to follow suite.
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My original flying instructor simply cut out a section of chart that extended about 50 miles on each side of our home base. As far as I know we nevr fell off the edge.
It worked for him
This being the quality of PPL instruction, we wonder why nearly all PPLs chuck flying in permanently within a year or two... they come out with a license which has close to zero utility value, and the fun value extends little beyond flying a local burger run.
It's true though; most PPL instructors have rarely ventured beyond the nearest crease in their chart.
It worked for him
This being the quality of PPL instruction, we wonder why nearly all PPLs chuck flying in permanently within a year or two... they come out with a license which has close to zero utility value, and the fun value extends little beyond flying a local burger run.
It's true though; most PPL instructors have rarely ventured beyond the nearest crease in their chart.
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From: UK
don't fold
I bring the map down the local print shop and get the whole thing reduced to
A4 size (black and white cos its cheaper).
Then fold it twice (quarters) and it fits neatly into my shirt pocket.
If you want to throw caution to the wind and push the boat out, laminate it.
Hope that helps.
JTK
A4 size (black and white cos its cheaper).
Then fold it twice (quarters) and it fits neatly into my shirt pocket.
If you want to throw caution to the wind and push the boat out, laminate it.
Hope that helps.
JTK
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From: Maders UK
Irrational yet highly practical Shrinkage Captain
I bring the map down the local print shop and get the whole thing reduced to
A4 size (black and white cos its cheaper).
It must be really legible when shrunken down so much, I'll bet it doesn't strain the eye at all, and what's more the black and white monochrome will get rid of any confusion between all those complicated colours. Why has nobody else thought of this before. What a really good idea.
Spock
A4 size (black and white cos its cheaper).
It must be really legible when shrunken down so much, I'll bet it doesn't strain the eye at all, and what's more the black and white monochrome will get rid of any confusion between all those complicated colours. Why has nobody else thought of this before. What a really good idea.
Spock
Avoid imitations
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From: Wandering the FIR and cyberspace often at highly unsociable times
I just fold my chart to suit the trip I am flying and used to take it home after work so the wife could iron out the creases. She stopped doing that when I forgot to clean off those heavy chinagraph lines after a very busy week and she got nasty brown stains in all the underpants she ironed afterwards.
(Lucky escape for Upland Goose, who tried to steal my chart yesterday
).
P.S. What's all this about new charts sometimes being issued? I never heard that one before and I've been flying since 1972.
(Lucky escape for Upland Goose, who tried to steal my chart yesterday
).P.S. What's all this about new charts sometimes being issued? I never heard that one before and I've been flying since 1972.
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From: Scotland
Cutting aeronautical charts
Is the act of cutting an aeronautical chart illegal, even the area of chart you take in flight represents the area which you know you will definitely be flying within?
Serious question.
NSW.
Serious question.
NSW.