Maintaining VFR altitudes when following N/S roads/rivers

If you are following a road or river or other feature on the ground while
flying VFR, and that feature runs north/south but often veers off to one side
or the other, are you expected to change your altitude each time you move from
a heading of 0-179 to 180-359 or vice versa?

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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If you are following a road or river or other feature on the ground while
flying VFR, and that feature runs north/south but often veers off to one
side
or the other, are you expected to change your altitude each time you move
from
a heading of 0-179 to 180-359 or vice versa?

No, that was only put in the regs to confuse people that never fly anything
but desktop computers.

In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:
If you are following a road or river or other feature on the ground while
flying VFR, and that feature runs north/south but often veers off to one side
or the other, are you expected to change your altitude each time you move from
a heading of 0-179 to 180-359 or vice versa?

Yes but a real pilot would be following a point on the horizon to smooth
out such things and maintain a more or less constant heading.


--
Jim Pennino

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On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:25:04 +0000, jimp wrote:

Yes but a real pilot would be following a point on the horizon to smooth
out such things and maintain a more or less constant heading.

Heh. Not always.

There's an unofficial route through the Newark class B that follows the
Garden State Parkway. I was shown this on my club checkride; I'd never
before heard of it, but it's a terrific way to get between the two
airports where the club keeps airplanes.

So we're on this route, and I'm staying *right* over the parkway. The
instructor finally points out that I don't need to follow the road
exactly. I remind him "that's part of the fun."

Using a computer game, though, I'd expect this to be as interesting
as...well...playing a computer game.

- Andrew

Andrew Gideon writes:

So we're on this route, and I'm staying *right* over the parkway. The
instructor finally points out that I don't need to follow the road
exactly. I remind him "that's part of the fun."

Using a computer game, though, I'd expect this to be as interesting
as...well...playing a computer game.

It sounds like your instructor felt the same way about doing it in real life.

There's no accounting for taste.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Andrew Gideon writes:

So we're on this route, and I'm staying *right* over the parkway.
The instructor finally points out that I don't need to follow the
road exactly. I remind him "that's part of the fun."

Using a computer game, though, I'd expect this to be as interesting
as...well...playing a computer game.

It sounds like your instructor felt the same way about doing it in
real life.

There's no accounting for taste.

There's no accounting for you at all.

bertie

Hello,

Which club is that? I have begun looking for a club in NJ

TJ
"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:25:04 +0000, jimp wrote:

Yes but a real pilot would be following a point on the horizon to smooth
out such things and maintain a more or less constant heading.

Heh. Not always.

There's an unofficial route through the Newark class B that follows the
Garden State Parkway. I was shown this on my club checkride; I'd never
before heard of it, but it's a terrific way to get between the two
airports where the club keeps airplanes.

So we're on this route, and I'm staying *right* over the parkway. The
instructor finally points out that I don't need to follow the road
exactly. I remind him "that's part of the fun."

Using a computer game, though, I'd expect this to be as interesting
as...well...playing a computer game.

- Andrew

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

If you are following a road or river or other feature on the ground
while flying VFR, and that feature runs north/south but often veers
off to one side or the other, are you expected to change your altitude
each time you move from a heading of 0-179 to 180-359 or vice versa?


You're an idiot.


Bertie

On Aug 24, 1:43 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote :

If you are following a road or river or other feature on the ground
while flying VFR, and that feature runs north/south but often veers
off to one side or the other, are you expected to change your altitude
each time you move from a heading of 0-179 to 180-359 or vice versa?

Why would you follow a road? If you want to follow a road, drive a
car.
Why would you follow a river, rivers end.
Why not fly the plane?

Lou wrote in
:

On Aug 24, 1:43 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote
:

If you are following a road or river or other feature on the ground
while flying VFR, and that feature runs north/south but often veers
off to one side or the other, are you expected to change your
altitude each time you move from a heading of 0-179 to 180-359 or
vice versa?

Why would you follow a road? If you want to follow a road, drive a
car.
Why would you follow a river, rivers end.
Why not fly the plane?



Because he doesn't fly.



Bertie