CharlieD3
En-Route
So, I posted elsewhere that I mounted and framed a US airport/airspace map.
How to do quick and dirty flight planning with one? The scale is not to any plotter standard, and a yardstick or straightedge is cumbersome...
My solution? Bead chain. 72” from Lowe's.
Now, for rough planning, 6 beads= 50 nautical miles. So I painted every 6th bead dayglow yellow (leaving the coupler on the one end with a hole drilled thru it and measured against the scale for the first painted bead).
72" is long enough from east tennessee, to reach the farthest NW corner of the country. If you live in the Florida keys, you may need more than one chain.
I think it's simple, elegant, and if I ever fly more than a hundred miles, it might even be useful.
Don't know where else to put this post.
How to do quick and dirty flight planning with one? The scale is not to any plotter standard, and a yardstick or straightedge is cumbersome...
My solution? Bead chain. 72” from Lowe's.
Now, for rough planning, 6 beads= 50 nautical miles. So I painted every 6th bead dayglow yellow (leaving the coupler on the one end with a hole drilled thru it and measured against the scale for the first painted bead).
72" is long enough from east tennessee, to reach the farthest NW corner of the country. If you live in the Florida keys, you may need more than one chain.
I think it's simple, elegant, and if I ever fly more than a hundred miles, it might even be useful.
Don't know where else to put this post.