dans2992
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Ok, so last night after dark I was departing from Banning, CA - KBNG (first time there).
There are no instrument approaches to Banning, so there is no published ODP.
Conditions on departure were night VFR. Based on the sectional, my homegrown ODP was to depart straight out on 26, remain over the lights of the town and just S of the highway, climb at Vy, then make a right 180 and follow the highway out to the east.
So, after rotation, I am finding that in order to get Vy, the nose of the aircraft obscures my view of the lights below. So, I start craning my neck and looking out the side windows occasionally to verify my position over the town based on ground lighting.
In retrospect, I'm thinking that perhaps I should have just transitioned to instruments, but then again my departure route was planned based on visual references, so maybe that wouldn't have been ideal.
It was not a huge deal or anything, just curious what others would do in this situation.
There are no instrument approaches to Banning, so there is no published ODP.
Conditions on departure were night VFR. Based on the sectional, my homegrown ODP was to depart straight out on 26, remain over the lights of the town and just S of the highway, climb at Vy, then make a right 180 and follow the highway out to the east.
So, after rotation, I am finding that in order to get Vy, the nose of the aircraft obscures my view of the lights below. So, I start craning my neck and looking out the side windows occasionally to verify my position over the town based on ground lighting.
In retrospect, I'm thinking that perhaps I should have just transitioned to instruments, but then again my departure route was planned based on visual references, so maybe that wouldn't have been ideal.
It was not a huge deal or anything, just curious what others would do in this situation.