Navigation strategy on a short flight

Mike Adams writes:

If no GPS, no pilotage, and no dead reckoning, I would capture the 148
radial from PXR and fly it outbound until I saw the field.

OK, thanks. I guess I might have been complicating the navigation more than
necessary. Too many IFR flights, perhaps.

In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:
Mike Adams writes:

If no GPS, no pilotage, and no dead reckoning, I would capture the 148
radial from PXR and fly it outbound until I saw the field.

OK, thanks. I guess I might have been complicating the navigation more than
necessary. Too many IFR flights, perhaps.

More like too much time playing the Microsoft Flight Simulator game and
zero time doing any actual flying.


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Jim Pennino

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More like too much time playing the Microsoft Flight Simulator game and
zero time doing any actual flying.

There's no distinction between simulation and real flight in this context. The
navigation methods are the same.

Mxsmanic wrote:
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More like too much time playing the Microsoft Flight Simulator game and
zero time doing any actual flying.

There's no distinction between simulation and real flight in this context. The
navigation methods are the same.

Yep, as long as you keep pushing that button to give you a view out the
side windows.

However the point was that if you had ever done any actual flying you would
know how trivial the problem is.


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Yep, as long as you keep pushing that button to give you a view out the
side windows.

In this case I was using radio navigation.

However the point was that if you had ever done any actual flying you would
know how trivial the problem is.

Odd that I receive so few answers to such a trivial question, then.

Mxsmanic wrote:
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Yep, as long as you keep pushing that button to give you a view out the
side windows.

In this case I was using radio navigation.

Which in this case is a less than optimal method.

However the point was that if you had ever done any actual flying you would
know how trivial the problem is.

Odd that I receive so few answers to such a trivial question, then.

I answered it almost immediately.

How many times do you need to hear the same answer?


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On Jun 27, 3:09*pm, Mxsmanic wrote:

There's no distinction between simulation and real flight in this context..

Yes there is. ATC in simulation did not act like it would in the real
world. But you wouldn't know this since you don't fly in the real
system

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Yes there is. ATC in simulation did not act like it would in the real
world.

The controller was a real person. What did he do that was unrealistic?

On Jun 27, 5:51*pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
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Yes there is. *ATC in simulation did not act like it would in the real
world.

The controller was a real person. What did he do that was unrealistic?

If you don't know this, then obviously my answer doesn't mean a
thing. Oh I forgot, I fly in the real ATC system.

I will give you a hint. You were playing in simulated VFR conditions.

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... obviously my answer doesn't mean a thing.

Unfortunately, I agree.