Does anyone sell sectionals which have been enlarged, i.e. are easier to
read? Would make it easier on a few pax who have trouble following along,
even with reading glasses.

I dunno if such a thing would still be called a sectional, as the scales
would then be off...

> Does anyone sell sectionals which have been enlarged, i.e. are easier to
> read? Would make it easier on a few pax who have trouble following along,
> even with reading glasses.
>
> I dunno if such a thing would still be called a sectional, as the scales
> would then be off...
>
The following website has sectionals online that you can enlarge and print
but I believe you have to be a member (of which I am) so I don't know
if it will work for you.
http://map.aeroplanner.com

David (KORL)

"Chris Hoffmann" > wrote in message
...
> Does anyone sell sectionals which have been enlarged, i.e. are easier to
> read? Would make it easier on a few pax who have trouble following along,
> even with reading glasses.

Some flight planning programs such as FliteStar will produce route maps to
just about any scale you want.

Just take your current one down to your local photocopy shop and blow up the
section(s) of interest.

Tape the pages together in a long strip and laminate them so you can
scribble all over with different coloured chinagraph pencils. The long strip
rolls up and you can read it like a scroll, and if you carry a couple of
pegs or bulldog clips and a folder, it will stay open at the "page" you
want.

Makes it easy to read when you are bouncing around in a strange area, and
simple to flight plan.

Peter

"Chris Hoffmann" > wrote in message
...
> Does anyone sell sectionals which have been enlarged, i.e. are easier to
> read? Would make it easier on a few pax who have trouble following along,
> even with reading glasses.
>
> I dunno if such a thing would still be called a sectional, as the scales
> would then be off...
>
>
>

"CFLav8r" > writes:

>The following website has sectionals online that you can enlarge and print
>but I believe you have to be a member (of which I am) so I don't know
>if it will work for you.

Membership has its hassles.
https://aviationtoolbox.org/members/kyler/tools/map_explorer

If it's for a route, plug in the address and airport here
http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/nearby_airports
and then select a "[sectional route]".

--kyler

>The following website has sectionals online that you can enlarge and print
>but I believe you have to be a member (of which I am) so I don't know
>if it will work for you.


Someone uploaded a bunch of high resolution scanned sectionals to
Flightsim.com a few weeks ago. The site requires a membership to download
files, but it's completely free and you could cancel it after you get what
you need. The same files might have been uploaded to avsim.com as well.
They're huge files, of course.


-Tony

In article >,
Kyler Laird > wrote:
>
>If it's for a route, plug in the address and airport here
> http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/nearby_airports
>and then select a "[sectional route]".

Is that not a great circle, or am I fooled by the projection of the map?

--
Ben Jackson
>
http://www.ben.com/

(Ben Jackson) writes:

>>If it's for a route, plug in the address and airport here
>> http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/nearby_airports
>>and then select a "[sectional route]".

>Is that not a great circle, or am I fooled by the projection of the map?

The tool that draws the route just uses the same technique any student
would; it draws a straight line. Sectional maps use the Lambert
Conformal Conic projection so a straight line should be close to
describing a great circle route.

--kyler

In article >,
Kyler Laird > wrote:
(Ben Jackson) writes:
>
>>Is that not a great circle, or am I fooled by the projection of the map?
>
>The tool that draws the route just uses the same technique any student
>would; it draws a straight line. Sectional maps use the Lambert
>Conformal Conic projection so a straight line should be close to
>describing a great circle route.

Does that property of the LCC hold across large areas, like the whole
US? I happened to be plotting a course from Oregon to Georgia (in-laws
are moving to Atlanta) and it looked straight and too southerly to me
offhand.

--
Ben Jackson
>
http://www.ben.com/

(Ben Jackson) writes:

>>The tool that draws the route just uses the same technique any student
>>would; it draws a straight line. Sectional maps use the Lambert
>>Conformal Conic projection so a straight line should be close to
>>describing a great circle route.

>Does that property of the LCC hold across large areas, like the whole
>US?

Good question. I don't know the boundary conditions but certainly the
LCC does *not* work across "large" expanses. I think it can suffice
for the conUS, but the rotation required to stitch together the
sectionals might make it unusable in that way.

I suspect that I need to account for the rotations. I'll look into it
more.

Thank you.

--kyler

"Chris Hoffmann" > wrote in message >...
> Does anyone sell sectionals which have been enlarged, i.e. are easier to
> read? Would make it easier on a few pax who have trouble following along,
> even with reading glasses.
>
> I dunno if such a thing would still be called a sectional, as the scales
> would then be off...

Well, the guy at http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA_sectionals/
was very very nice and bought the whole set of scanned sectionals from
the FAA. You *could* d/l what you needed there and enlarge as you
please.

One problem: The FAA scanned sectionals are just that: scanned. So,
they're not true digital source copies or anything. Nice for
preflight discussion, but I'm not sure about navigational purposes.
Not for my taste at least.

Second problem: I kinda like having nicely calibrated 5 nm index
fingers. Enlarging would mess that up.

But for passengers with eyesight issues, I could certianly understand!

-Malcolm Teas