Long x-country...

Well, as I type this our 17-year-old is on his long cross country
flight, on a picture-perfect Midwestern fall day.

Imagine yourself a teenager again, alone in a clapped out old Cessna
150, high above the harvested cornfields of Iowa, trying to find
Grinnell, Ames and Iowa City without so much as a GPS on board!

Luckily he's inherited Mary's sense of direction, so he stands a good
chance of making it...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay

Be sure and remind him that the fence lines run N-S and E-W in Iowa.
Great help in navigation.

Big John

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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:55:58 -0700, Jay Honeck
wrote:

Well, as I type this our 17-year-old is on his long cross country
flight, on a picture-perfect Midwestern fall day.

Imagine yourself a teenager again, alone in a clapped out old Cessna
150, high above the harvested cornfields of Iowa, trying to find
Grinnell, Ames and Iowa City without so much as a GPS on board!

Luckily he's inherited Mary's sense of direction, so he stands a good
chance of making it...

;-)

On Oct 28, 10:14 am, Big John wrote:
Jay

Be sure and remind him that the fence lines run N-S and E-W in Iowa.
Great help in navigation.

Big John

Don't they run like that everywhere? When I got my training in Ohio, I
was never taught to use the furrow/fence lines in navigation, and I
never even noticed that they could be useful for such. Once I started
instructing in California, I happened to notice they can be really
helpful in navigating, and I now can't imagine trying to navigate
without them.

"buttman" wrote in message
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On Oct 28, 10:14 am, Big John wrote:
Jay

Be sure and remind him that the fence lines run N-S and E-W in Iowa.
Great help in navigation.

Big John

Don't they run like that everywhere?

Nope. In hilly terrain, they run any-which-way.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
"buttman" wrote in message
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On Oct 28, 10:14 am, Big John wrote:
Jay

Be sure and remind him that the fence lines run N-S and E-W in Iowa.
Great help in navigation.

Big John

Don't they run like that everywhere?

Nope. In hilly terrain, they run any-which-way.

That rules out 95% of Iowa (and the rest of the plains)...

"ManhattanMan" wrote in message
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Morgans wrote:
"buttman" wrote in message
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On Oct 28, 10:14 am, Big John wrote:
Jay

Be sure and remind him that the fence lines run N-S and E-W in Iowa.
Great help in navigation.

Big John

Don't they run like that everywhere?

Nope. In hilly terrain, they run any-which-way.

That rules out 95% of Iowa (and the rest of the plains)...
Fence lines typically run along property lines, and since the overwhelming
majority of property lines are configured N-S and E-W, it only stands to
reason that fence lines would also, regardless of terrain.


--
Matt Barrow
Performance Homes, LLC.
Cheyenne, WY

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:22:26 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:

Nope. In hilly terrain, they run any-which-way.

This is true in New England.

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:48:44 -0000, buttman wrote:



Don't they run like that everywhere? When I got my training in Ohio,

Sportys, or a certain university?

buttman wrote:
On Oct 28, 10:14 am, Big John wrote:
Jay

Be sure and remind him that the fence lines run N-S and E-W in Iowa.
Great help in navigation.

Big John

Don't they run like that everywhere? When I got my training in Ohio, I
was never taught to use the furrow/fence lines in navigation, and I
never even noticed that they could be useful for such. Once I started
instructing in California, I happened to notice they can be really
helpful in navigating, and I now can't imagine trying to navigate
without them.


Not anywhere with mountains. Here in PA the fence lines are more random
and a function of terrain rather than magnetic direction.

Matt

"buttman" wrote in message
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On Oct 28, 10:14 am, Big John wrote:
Jay

Be sure and remind him that the fence lines run N-S and E-W in Iowa.
Great help in navigation.

Big John

Don't they run like that everywhere?

No. They only run where ther are section lines. The property lines in the
east are run along the "metes and bounds" system. Farmer Johns property run
along the creek to the top of the hill over to the big rock and back, based
on topography.

Surveying by using section lines happened during the time the west was
"won." Section lines start to show up in eastern Ohio and go west from
there.

That's why there are no straight roads in New England.

Karl Curator