Night VFR following highways

Mxsmanic wrote in
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writes:

Since there is no real traffic on your simulated highways with real
headlights, why would you care?

Actually, the sim does put traffic on the highways.


No it doesn't. it makes little colored pixtels.


Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote:
Is it a bad idea to fly VFR at night and navigate by following highways?

My father-in-law (ANG helicopter crewman) takes "IFR" to mean "I Follow
Roads " (or rivers)

At night outside large cities, there doesn't seem to be much else that's
visible.
It seems to me that if you can clearly see the highway, it can guide you
and
you can get a good idea of where you are with respect to terrain, so it
should
work.

Sure. For example, Interstate 5 runs from Canada to Mexico, and the stretch
through most of Oregon looks like somebody drew a straight line with a
pencil across the landscape. If you were flying from Portland (possible
Seattle) to Eugene, Medford, Sacramento, etc, day or note you could follow
the freeway the entire route.

You'd still use your VFR navigation aids and checkpoints to make sure know
how far you are enroute, and also to avoid controlled airspace, etc, but
having that road, railroad, river makes for a more-enjoyable flight.

-c

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrote in message

Mxsmanic wrote:
Is it a bad idea to fly VFR at night and navigate by following highways?

Please note that MX is xposting to R.A.S.

He's asking a legitimate question, though. That's useful on R.A.S. (so
far), so I took it at face value.

-c

On Feb 1, 1:51*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote :

writes:

Since there is no real traffic on your simulated highways with real
headlights, why would you care?

Actually, the sim does put traffic on the highways.

No it doesn't. it makes little colored pixtels.

Bertie

Actually, it simulates little colored pixels which simulate cars in a
simulated world so that people with nothing better to do can simulate
living their lives.

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On Feb 1, 1:51*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote
innews:9717q3lb3kndi6fsgoecrg5p2f2c4hn
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writes:

Since there is no real traffic on your simulated highways with
real headlights, why would you care?

Actually, the sim does put traffic on the highways.

No it doesn't. it makes little colored pixtels.

Bertie

Actually, it simulates little colored pixels which simulate cars in a
simulated world so that people with nothing better to do can simulate
living their lives.


Really. I wonder where he's going to fly to tonight?


Bertie

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:16:30 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

wrote in
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On Feb 1, 1:51*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote
innews:9717q3lb3kndi6fsgoecrg5p2f2c4hn
:

writes:

Since there is no real traffic on your simulated highways with
real headlights, why would you care?

Actually, the sim does put traffic on the highways.

No it doesn't. it makes little colored pixtels.

Bertie

Actually, it simulates little colored pixels which simulate cars in a
simulated world so that people with nothing better to do can simulate
living their lives.


Really. I wonder where he's going to fly to tonight?

Does it matter? All he has to do is turn on the light.

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:



Really. I wonder where he's going to fly to tonight?


Bertie

Obviously the answer is Phoenix.

On Feb 1, 12:28 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Is it a bad idea to fly VFR at night

Yes.

If you actually flew, then you'd know that the Bogeyman comes out at
night... and he makes your engine run rough for no good reason at all,
and will let you fly right smack into a cloud without being able to
see it in front of you, and play tricks on your eyes when you are
descending on short final, and all kinds of other Bad Stuff (tm).

Now having said that, I've flown a lot at night, single engine, vfr,
and I'm still alive after doing it regularly for ten years. In real
airplanes too. I think the Bogeyman might be scared of me. But I do
try to stay in gliding distance of a highway wherever possible. If the
Bogeyman does hop onto my wing at night like a bad Twilight Zone
episode with William Shatner, , I'd rather take my chances on a dead
stick landing with the wires crossing the road and the cars, than the
unseeable terrain in the dark. And yes, I'll leave the landing light
on for the duration.

Gig 601XL Builder wrote in news:13q73hucpg6e8c6
@news.supernews.com:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:



Really. I wonder where he's going to fly to tonight?


Bertie

Obviously the answer is Phoenix.


Doh!

Bertie

On Feb 1, 2:34*pm, wrote:
On Feb 1, 12:28 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:

Is it a bad idea to fly VFR at night

Yes.

If you actually flew, then you'd know that the Bogeyman comes out at
night... and he makes your engine run rough for no good reason at all,
and will let you fly right smack into a cloud without being able to
see it in front of you, and play tricks on your eyes when you are
descending on short final, and all kinds of other Bad Stuff (tm).

Now having said that, I've flown a lot at night, single engine, vfr,
and I'm still alive after doing it regularly for ten years. In real
airplanes too. I think the Bogeyman might be scared of me. But I do
try to stay in gliding distance of a highway wherever possible. If the
Bogeyman does hop onto my wing at night like a bad Twilight Zone
episode with William Shatner, , I'd rather take my chances on a dead
stick landing with the wires crossing the road and the cars, than the
unseeable terrain in the dark. *And yes, I'll leave the landing light
on for the duration.

Unless you don't like what you see toward the end, then just turn it
off...