Flight Planning

[Mark11]

I've found skyvector.com is a very useful

 

My years membership to Ozrunways has expired !

 

 

[Nick Evison]

On that topic does anyone in australia use skydemon? Can anyone let me know what they believe to be the best for basic trike flying?

 

Cheers

 

 

[Phil Perry]

On that topic does anyone in australia use skydemon? Can anyone let me know what they believe to be the best for basic trike flying?Cheers

Yeah Nick,. . . . .

You need that nice aboriginal guy in the Crocodile Dundee movie,. . . ."Neville" was it ? ? he sort of . . . .THINKS his way. . . . . . . .

 

Phil

 

PS,. . . when I flew in OZ in the early seventies, I had the same problem, NO google Earth,. . .NO satnav. . . . . . Geez,. . .the guys these days dunno how lucky they are. . . .! !

 

Nudge nudge. . . .wink wink

 

 

[Guest Crezzi]

On that topic does anyone in australia use skydemon?

I'm not sure that Skydemon covers the Antipodes ? If it does, I never heard of anyone here using it - OzRunways seems to be the defacto local alternative

 

Can anyone let me know what they believe to be the best for basic trike flying?

Chart, clock & compass

Cheers

 

John

 

 

[DrZoos]

Ozrunways and avplan.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Yes,. . . .all those things are handy, . . .plus lots of spare batteries and a couple of cans of Aeroguard to keep the mossies away for camping out under your wing in the bush . . . . .

 

Phil ( ! )

 

 

[flying dog]

I have written a flight plan spreadsheet.

 

It has most airports, VOR, DME, VFR, IFR (dunno why) and points in it.

 

Alas it is BIG, but does fuel calculations, distances, all that stuff.

 

A few people have it and use it.

 

You can put in custom waypoints, if you want.

 

Let m eknow if you want a a copy.

 

 

[Yenn]

Flying dog. does your spreadsheet work out heading and speed from track, wind and airspeed?

 

 

[flying dog]

Yes, track, heading, wind, magnetic variation.

 

Distance, airspeed, time, fuel requirements.

 

You "set it up" with the plane's stats and it does the rest.

 

 

[Mark11]

I have written a flight plan spreadsheet.It has most airports, VOR, DME, VFR, IFR (dunno why) and points in it.

 

Alas it is BIG, but does fuel calculations, distances, all that stuff.

 

A few people have it and use it.

 

You can put in custom waypoints, if you want.

 

Let m eknow if you want a a copy.

Yes, I believe you sent me a copy

 

At that stage I wasn't ready for flight planning - but now I am, so

 

I'll have another look at it

 

Thanks FD

 

 

[flying dog]

Um,

 

I am not trying to sprook my spreadsheet, but was thinking:

 

(yeah, I'm an old fart. I think, rather than act, in a lot of cases.)

 

All these programs rely on internet connections, subscriptions, and other "ONGOING COSTS".

 

This program is a FLIGHT PLANNER and NOTHING ELSE!

 

Granted, the waypoints may be out of date - it still has SLS in its database, but so what......

 

Also: Granted it may not have new ones. Not the end of the world. It allows you to add your own/new ones.

 

It does NOT promise to be perfect. It simply removes/reduces the repetitive tasks where mistakes are sure to happen.

 

Totally shirking the flight planing stage to a program is only asking for trouble.

 

True story:

 

I have been to Tumut a few times.

 

I have a GPS, and a flight plan.

 

The GPS has all the waypoints and was programmed by me. (Yeah.....)

 

The flight plan was a re-make of last year's with updated weather.

 

I took off and was flying the GPS.

 

I was still learning how to use it, so I wasn't going to start playing with it while flying.

 

First leg YWOL - SLS/YGLB via a lake which is between WOL and SLS. That is SW. The GPS was saying head NW.

 

It wasn't s short distance either.

 

After a few checks, I decided to "chuck" the GPS, and skip that waypoint and go for SLS/YGLB.

 

Looked at the flight plan and turned to the heading written on the flight plan.

 

What happened?

 

Well, when I entered the lat/long of the waypoint, I goofed with one of the numbers.

 

It happens.

 

But because I had a written down flight plan, I had a better option.

 

CHECK YOUR FLIGHT PLAN!

 

I have another story, but......

 

That's a different story.

 

:)