It was a year ago today that someone exposed my tower crew to COVID and half of us had to stay home for a week.
Track up is the correct way... That IS track RIGHT. C'mon, track up worked for AAA "trip ticks"* And, it's how we learned xc on a sectional.... Sheesh it's the ONLY WAY! *Anybody remember those?
Well we did back in the day before headsets. When all we had was a mic and the overhead speaker... When we flew by water towers to make sure this was the checkpoint when we flew over.. Way back then....
LOL. I just saw the historical note from 8 years ago and felt like stirring the pot this morning. LOL
this belongs in the Medical subforum....... "I fly track up, will they take my medical away? and the answer is, "they should"
I do! I remember as a kid going with Mom to AAA to pick them up before family trips. They were, perhaps, the earliest implementation of 'follow the magenta line'! Though I think AAA actually used yellow highlighters.
At the time of that first flight the prototype (c/n 23-01) was still known as the "Twin Stinson". The fuselage was steel tube with fabric covering; and the airplane had a twin tail. The initial engines were 125 hp with fixed-pitch props. Soon the twin tail was replaced by the rounded vertical tail of the abandoned single-engine PA-6 Sky Sedan, power increased to 135 hp per side with feathering props, and an all metal fuselage was designed. I got my AMEL-CFI in N4374P, a 160 hp Apache that had been the cover girl of the 1961 brochure. It wasn't quite so shiny when I got my hands on it ten years later. It was a sweet-flying, if underpowered, airplane, and I loved it. We called it the "Apathy".
I would have never known. I have almost 72 years on Earth and maps have always been north up. I never saw any need to make LCD maps any differently.
Sorry, I always used my charts with North up. Books are read with the top up. Why would one even think of not reading a map or a chart with the top up?
So, do track-uppers just suffer through reading all the chart labels upside down when they’re heading south-ish? That’s the part I never got.
34 years ago yesterday (2 March) the F-8 Crusader (an RF-8) flew its final flight in US Navy service. Nauga, who doesn't care which way you hold your map
On this day in history, one year ago, I was honored to become a member of a fine group known world wide as P.O.A.