Kneeboards

personally i've never used a kneeboard bigger than one "square" meaning it has no folds at all. just a piece of metal with good info on it like emergency squawk codes and other stuff. I wish it had a pen holder at the top but I just clip my pen/pencil onto the top where it hinged to hold the papers down. I also have the sporty's ifr organizer thing to keep all my approach plates in. the low alt enroute chart I hold by hand just because I think it's easier that way.. especially when your going too far to fold it into a small enough square to fit on the board.
 
I use a 60 cent clipboard from office depot, be sure to get the kind with the rough back, not the smooth.


to be EXTRA fancy get some velcro, and a mechanical pencil and velcro it to the clip, throw some extra lead in your flight bag though.

I kepe notebook paper on that, my charts, and on the face of the clipboard a printed out flight plan form, since I can never remember the order of things.
 
I think i've had about 100 kneeboards in the last 10 years.....pilot shops are the enemy i tell ya.....


to answer your question though, get something that's not going to get in your way while you're flying, or is too complex to get organized with....simple is better.........whether it's 5 bucks or 200 bucks, nothing matters unless it helps you stay organized.....
 
Depends on the sort of flying I'm doing. I sometimes use the 9G+, sometimes just a "3rd hand" leg strap holding a terminal chart with a few sheets of post-it notes stuck to it for ATIS/clearance notes. Lately I've just been using a clipboard, and really only for IFR flights. Since I've started IFR flying, I've begun to take cockpit organization more seriously and thus I *may* invest in one of those aluminum ASA clipboards that folds in half, simply because a legal size clipboard won't fit in my flight bag (and the extra clip is nice, too--though what I'd really kill for is a legal size clipboard with two clips along one side...are you listening, ASA?)
 
aloft said:
Depends on the sort of flying I'm doing. I sometimes use the 9G+, sometimes just a "3rd hand" leg strap holding a terminal chart with a few sheets of post-it notes stuck to it for ATIS/clearance notes. Lately I've just been using a clipboard, and really only for IFR flights. Since I've started IFR flying, I've begun to take cockpit organization more seriously and thus I *may* invest in one of those aluminum ASA clipboards that folds in half, simply because a legal size clipboard won't fit in my flight bag (and the extra clip is nice, too--though what I'd really kill for is a legal size clipboard with two clips along one side...are you listening, ASA?)
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I use one of those jepp flite file things for my plates for each trip, that way I can tuck it in a pocket and clip it over my scribblings while in approach mode.
When IFR I also keep a pen/pencil in my right hand at all times, my memory sucks so I write everything down.
 
Dude that thing's a beast. I hope you're not planning to use it in anything smaller than a 182! j/k. Personally I have a Jepp tri-fold, which is nice, but hardly use it 'cept for IFR.
 
I just use the ASA tri-fold that I got for 17 bucks and thats almost too fancy for me. I put a piece of paper and my flight plan/log on the clipboard, airport diagrams in the clear thing and just hold enroute charts or lay them on my lap. When it comes time for an approach, the map goes in the back seat and is replaced by the apprach charts.
 
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