Best way to flip the sectional

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SFCC/UND

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I was curious if there is a easier way to flip the sectional chart. Like say I want to fly from Washington to Oregon. I'm really lousy on drawing the course from Washington to Oregon. I know the sectional chart tells you how to do it. But I think it's a little confusing. And I don't want to get yelled at for not knowing how to draw a straight line from one state to another state. So any easier advice would be greatly appreciated thanks.




Tim B
 
"But I think it's a little confusing"

HAHA...I remember reading those directions in 1978 thinking the same thing.

I would just draw the line to the bottom of the chart. Then try to match up the top charts and bottom charts as close together as you can, using roads and rivers, then, laying them both out on the floor, you can draw a line from one to the other. That's how I do it. Not too scientific and you might still get yelled at.
 
If you punch "Direct" on the GPS, it puts a straight line to your destination on the moving map...umm...oh wait, nevermind....

I'd say pretty much what DE727UPS said. Just try to match up the roads and towns as best as you can.

If you're using a sectional to navigate, the fact is, you simply can't get very precise. Everything is an estimate or a reasonable assumption.
 
I gave up... I started using clever odd-ball checkpoints.

A river/road, or a mt. peak, piece of compass rose of a VOR station, anything lying within an inch of the border that showed on both sides.
 
I would like to do GPS direct. But I would get in trouble. I'm doing my stage check. I'm going to Spokane Falls Community College, then I'll transfer automactically to North Dakota hence my Screen Name. And we have to plot everything out by hand and we can't use GPS.:mad: And if I don't know how to do it. Then I'll have to go back and meet with my instructor. Waste of time. So thanks for your relpies they help a lot.




Tim B
 
You well thank your instructor later for not letting you use GPS. It is like never learning how to do math and only using a calculator in grade school.
 
subpilot said:
You well thank your instructor later for not letting you use GPS. It is like never learning how to do math and only using a calculator in grade school.
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What the hell are you talking about?!? I never learned how to do math, I only used a calculator in grade school and I rock with a GPS!!! ;)
 
if you try putting two edges together, you soon find that they don;t always match perfectly. Try to match up rivers, roads, radials, the little white boxes for TAC areas... the best is if there's two radials that intersect.
 
The instructions actually work. Problem is that unless you do it all the time, you have to keep relearning it. Last time I worked at it was in order to teach it to a student. A week later I couldn't do it anymore.

I think the easiest way to deal with it is to keep an expired sectional handy.
 
atleast you are planning between two known points. get this. i got a call the other night telling me that im going on a charter up to a point on the north slope where there is supposed to be a runway but that is only what someone told our dispatcher. its not on any map i could find and yet we have coordinates for it. so i ask what plane they are putting me in and get told the one without gps. so no gps no real great report on runway condition beyond vor range and oh yes they told me it was on a creek. well the good news is that the runway is actually there
 
Thanks you all for your advice. I pass my Cross Country oral stage check. So now I get to do my flight this Wednesday we get to do Diversions and ground reference maneuvers getting ready for the Private Pilot License:) . I'm really not doing a cross country flight. Instructor wanted to know if I could plan a cross country flight. And I planed from Spokane International, to City County Airport in Madras, Oregon. So thanks again for all of your replies.

Sincerely,
Tim B
 
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