Anyone have a PIREP for a zuluboard kneeboard?

"Jack Allison" wrote in message
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Does anyone own a zuluboard kneeboard and if so, how do you like it?
Thanks
in advance!

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

IMHO any kneeboard is worse than no kneeboard. The kneeboard is a solution
in search of a problem.

I write notes on a small spiral notepad, preferably with a pen. Everything
else goes into a little bag or a pocket where I can reach it when I need it.
There is absolutely no need to have everything spread out in front of you
all of the time. A simple clipboard is sufficient for your cross country
navigation log.

As Rod Machado points out, a pilot still needs a few kneeboards for the
kneeboard clapping dances we do during our secret rituals in abandoned
hangars at night. These should be large and heavy and hard so as to make the
maximum clapping noise.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...
"Jack Allison" wrote in message
...
Does anyone own a zuluboard kneeboard and if so, how do you like it?
Thanks
in advance!

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

well, if he were my student he could answer "yes" to the your second question.


IMHO any kneeboard is worse than no kneeboard. The kneeboard is a solution
in search of a problem.

i use a small (5 x 8) kneeboard. it keeps my small notepad handy and
allows me to scribble notes with one hand -- i don't have to fish for the
pad, and i don't have to hold it in place when i write.


I write notes on a small spiral notepad, preferably with a pen. Everything
else goes into a little bag or a pocket where I can reach it when I need it.
There is absolutely no need to have everything spread out in front of you
all of the time. A simple clipboard is sufficient for your cross country
navigation log.

here i would agree -- i don't have everything spread out in front of me.
but i do like having my notepad secured.


As Rod Machado points out, a pilot still needs a few kneeboards for the
kneeboard clapping dances we do during our secret rituals in abandoned
hangars at night. These should be large and heavy and hard so as to make the
maximum clapping noise.

do you have an aresti diagram of the "kneeboard clapping dance"? please
share it. :-) :-)

g_a

gross_arrow wrote:
do you have an aresti diagram of the "kneeboard clapping dance"? please
share it. :-) :-)

1982 or 1983, I did design a Aresti "OhiO" sequence. Some people saw it
and actually went out and practiced it.

O... Loop
h... Vertical to Tailslide with half-roll to Spin
i... Hammerhead
O... Loop

"Jay Smith" wrote in message
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gross_arrow wrote:
do you have an aresti diagram of the "kneeboard clapping dance"? please
share it. :-) :-)

1982 or 1983, I did design a Aresti "OhiO" sequence. Some people saw it
and actually went out and practiced it.

O... Loop
h... Vertical to Tailslide with half-roll to Spin
i... Hammerhead
O... Loop

It's round on the ends, and high in the middle!

Jim in NC
TBDBITL Alumni 76-80


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C,

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


Maybe not, but they believe in the dangers of downwind turns and
lean-of-peak, too. So what does that show?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...

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


I'd have to answer "yes" to that one. Of course, those profesional
pilots happen to work for Uncle Sam in cramped fighter cockpits. When
flying VFR, those kneeboards generally hold strip charts of the route
of flight and some scratch paper.

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 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.