Anyone have a PIREP for a zuluboard kneeboard?

I use a kneeboard for flight/fuel logging and have a pad for notes
(weather, clearance, etc). A mechanical pencil is attached via a 24"
lanyard so if it is dropped, it can be retrieved. Frequency changes are
recorded along with the time issued and facility.
I have a wide lapboard for IFR flight.
The lapboard holds approach plates expected for available approaches,
an open sectional and IFR charts for the area being flown, a copy of the
flight plan.
The lapboard sets beside the seat when not actively being used. Cockpit
organization is simplified.

OK, and don't allow the airspeed to accidentally exceed 250 knots while you
are doing that, John...
denny
"John Galban" wrote in I use a kneeboard for some
flights. It makes it easier for me to
copy clearances, weather, etc... with one hand while I fly the plane
with the other.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

I use a clipboard which was about $2 from K-Mart.

Since it's US paper sized and a bit too small for A4, if I need
more paper I have to get it while I'm in the US!

I really should invest another £3 or so for an A4 sized one.
But then you know what us pilots are like with spending
money unnecessarily.

Paul

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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A simple clipboard is sufficient for your cross country
navigation log.

Do you see a lot of professional pilots using kneeboards? Does your
instructor use one?

My old instructor (he flew B25s in WWII) always flew with:
leather gloves,
baseball cap,
aviator glasses (even on cloudy days)
and no knee board.

He said he'd worn the same items while flying for so long that he didn't
feel right without them. Ditto for my kneeboard. Without that strap on my
thigh I feel naked.

"McGregor" wrote in message
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Do you see a lot of professional pilots using kneeboards? Does your
instructor use one?

My old instructor (he flew B25s in WWII) always flew with:
leather gloves,
baseball cap,
aviator glasses (even on cloudy days)
and no knee board.

I fly for a major airline and to date, I have yet to see any of our
professional pilots don a kneeboard. My flight kit usually includes copies
of company manuals, Jeppesen charts, pens, a calculator, a scab list, the
most current copy of Maxim or Playboy, a bag of tootsie rolls, chewing gum,
Sani-Com moist towelettes to clean off our O2 and communications equipment,
my passport and a fork and knife (plastic, of course). About the closest
thing I have to a kneeboard is a small 1" Jeppesen binder which I put my
monthly 'trip kit' into which contains all of the plates for airports I will
be visiting that month. That binder usually sits on the table to my side so
that I can reference it during flight.

Even back in the day when I was instructing, I always preached that less is
more when it comes to equipping yourself for flight. About all you really
need to safely fly your aircraft is a flashlight and a map. And maybe a pen
in your pocket.

Regards,

Ryan R. Healy
Chicago, IL

In a previous article, "Global Wealth Builders, Inc." said:
I fly for a major airline and to date, I have yet to see any of our
professional pilots don a kneeboard. My flight kit usually includes copies
....
be visiting that month. That binder usually sits on the table to my side so
that I can reference it during flight.

"table"? No wonder you don't need a knee board. In the cramped confines
of a general aviation cockpit, we don't have tables, nor do we have time
for masturbation, so we use kneeboards and we don't consider "the latest
Maxim" to be essential flight materials.


--
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passed it, seen it in the rear view memory and now look back on the
moment as a fond, if distant, memory. -- Robert Uhl

I find a kneeboard to be quite useful in a 152. It's has 3 flaps the
center being the clipboard.

On the clipboard I have my checklists, scratchpad, and the clipboard
itself has handy dandy info like what transponder code to tune to if
you've lost your radio and what the light signals from the tower
means when they are trying to communicate with you via flasher.

The right hand flap - which hangs down, has a clear plastic cover so
I can keep an enlarged xerox copy of the strange airport I'm flying
towards

I think that until I get to the exalted position of having a table
off to the side I'll stick with the kneeboard.



--- Gregg
"Improvise, adapt, overcome."

Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phone: (617) 496-1558

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "Global Wealth Builders, Inc."
said:
I fly for a major airline and to date, I have yet to see any of our
professional pilots don a kneeboard. My flight kit usually includes
copies
...
be visiting that month. That binder usually sits on the table to my side
so
that I can reference it during flight.

"table"? No wonder you don't need a knee board. In the cramped confines
of a general aviation cockpit, we don't have tables, nor do we have time
for masturbation, so we use kneeboards and we don't consider "the latest
Maxim" to be essential flight materials.

Ordinarily, we do not masturbate on the flight deck. We ring the flight
attendant call button.

-RH

Global Wealth Builders, Inc. wrote:
That binder usually sits on the table to my side so
that I can reference it during flight.

Is that like a nightstand? :-))
Who needs a kneeboard when you have a table built into the cockpit!

"Jay Smith" wrote in message
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Global Wealth Builders, Inc. wrote:
That binder usually sits on the table to my side so
that I can reference it during flight.

Is that like a nightstand? :-))
Who needs a kneeboard when you have a table built into the cockpit!

Well, maybe table was the wrong choice of words but we do have several nice
flat surfaces to build our nest upon ... But in any case, in the thousands
of hours I flew GA, I never bothered with the kneeboard. Some students of
mine would come for their lessons with very elaborate contraptions which
they would attach to themselves for the purposes of organization, however in
most cases, they'd just end up getting entangled in headset wires, or worse,
restrict full movement of the yoke. In terms of cockpit organization, I
still maintain that less is more. It is amazing how effectively simple a
navigation chart, pen and small pad of paper can be.

Unfortunately, I'm just not a poster boy for Sporty's Pilot Shop. I did
however have one instrument student who was Hal Shever's wet dream. This
guy would come to his lessons with two full duffel bags just full of
Sporty's sh** (I'm not exaggerating). I told him that the first time any of
his crap got entangled with the flight controls, it was all staying on the
ground from that point on. I think we made it to the runup area before the
gaggle of wires got hold of the yoke. From that point on, he was allowed
his charts, a pad of paper no bigger than the complimentary paper found in a
hotel room, and a pen.

-RH