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"Street pattern" notation on charts?
Hello all!
I'm wondering about a notation I've seen on a couple of VFR sectional charts. A small area - no bigger than about 3 or 4 miles on a side - will be outlined with thin black dashed lines, with a note "street pattern". The note is in the same typeface used for other landmarks like "golf course", "plant", "hospital", etc. Does it mean something like "unusual street pattern that is a good visual landmark"? Or something closer to "this might sort of look like a runway, but it's not, so don't land on it"? I've looked through the User's Guide at http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xm...ine/aero_guide but the answer didn't jump out at me; is there a better place to look for things like this? One example is about 10 miles due east of MKO (Muskogee, Oklahoma). See http://skyvector.com/perl/code?id=KMKO&scale=2 and look east of MKO and just north of the small town of Braggs. (For those of you keeping score at home, this is on the Dallas-Ft. Worth sectional.) Here is a Google Maps satellite photo of the same area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&z=14...-95.189667&t=h Thanks! Matt Roberds |
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wrote in message ... Hello all! I'm wondering about a notation I've seen on a couple of VFR sectional charts. A small area - no bigger than about 3 or 4 miles on a side - will be outlined with thin black dashed lines, with a note "street pattern". The note is in the same typeface used for other landmarks like "golf course", "plant", "hospital", etc. Does it mean something like "unusual street pattern that is a good visual landmark"? Or something closer to "this might sort of look like a runway, but it's not, so don't land on it"? I've looked through the User's Guide at http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xm...ine/aero_guide but the answer didn't jump out at me; is there a better place to look for things like this? One example is about 10 miles due east of MKO (Muskogee, Oklahoma). See http://skyvector.com/perl/code?id=KMKO&scale=2 and look east of MKO and just north of the small town of Braggs. (For those of you keeping score at home, this is on the Dallas-Ft. Worth sectional.) Here is a Google Maps satellite photo of the same area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&z=14...-95.189667&t=h Thanks! Matt Roberds The one that I was familiar with was a case of a a good sized development that had, for want of a better word, fizzled. Basically, it was a development started in the sixties with all of the infrastructure, streets and utilities, in place; but only a small percentage of the homes were built. The visual effect was that of a small city without the homes. Effectively, it is a daytime landmark, but won't appear as a lighted area at night. Therefore, it was charted in the manner you described--rather than the filled in yellow of a typical town or city. For any who are curious, the area of that type that I most clearly recall is called Lehigh Acres and is located in southwest Florida--however, I have been told that it was finally built out in our recent "land boom." I have not seem it recently, either from the air or by chart, so I really don't know the current status(s). Peter |
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"Street pattern" notation on charts?
On Apr 9, 7:40 am, wrote:
Hello all! I'm wondering about a notation I've seen on a couple of VFR sectional charts. A small area - no bigger than about 3 or 4 miles on a side - will be outlined with thin black dashed lines, with a note "street pattern". The note is in the same typeface used for other landmarks like "golf course", "plant", "hospital", etc. Does it mean something like "unusual street pattern that is a good visual landmark"? Or something closer to "this might sort of look like a runway, but it's not, so don't land on it"? I've looked through the User's Guide athttp://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/online/aero_guidebut the answer didn't jump out at me; is there a better place to look for things like this? One example is about 10 miles due east of MKO (Muskogee, Oklahoma). Seehttp://skyvector.com/perl/code?id=KMKO&scale=2and look east of MKO and just north of the small town of Braggs. (For those of you keeping score at home, this is on the Dallas-Ft. Worth sectional.) Here is a Google Maps satellite photo of the same area:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&z=14...-95.189667&t=h Thanks! Matt Roberds I believe the street patterns are there as land marks, however I have seen a dragstrip or two on a chart, and I suspect those are there so as to not be confused with a landing strip. -- Gene Seibel Gene & Sue's Flying Machine - http://pad39a.com/gene/ Because we fly, we envy no one. |
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"Street pattern" notation on charts?
wrote in message ... Hello all! I'm wondering about a notation I've seen on a couple of VFR sectional charts. A small area - no bigger than about 3 or 4 miles on a side - will be outlined with thin black dashed lines, with a note "street pattern". The note is in the same typeface used for other landmarks like "golf course", "plant", "hospital", etc. Does it mean something like "unusual street pattern that is a good visual landmark"? Or something closer to "this might sort of look like a runway, but it's not, so don't land on it"? I've looked through the User's Guide at http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xm...ine/aero_guide but the answer didn't jump out at me; is there a better place to look for things like this? One example is about 10 miles due east of MKO (Muskogee, Oklahoma). See http://skyvector.com/perl/code?id=KMKO&scale=2 and look east of MKO and just north of the small town of Braggs. (For those of you keeping score at home, this is on the Dallas-Ft. Worth sectional.) Here is a Google Maps satellite photo of the same area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&z=14...-95.189667&t=h IIUC, it's where streets were laid out, but no buildings erected (ie, RE development gone bust). |
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On 2007-04-09, Peter Dohm wrote:
The one that I was familiar with was a case of a a good sized development that had, for want of a better word, fizzled. I turned in to one of those when I was visiting Houston, TX. It was a whole suburban neighborhood of roads, with mature trees all around, but no houses at all. It was surreal. Houston also had highway ramps going nowhere (with matching rusted out cranes). I got the impression that the money dried up suddenly one day and everyone just walked away. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD http://www.ben.com/ |
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"Street pattern" notation on charts?
Matt Barrow wrote:
IIUC, it's where streets were laid out, but no buildings erected (ie, RE development gone bust). Yep. There are a lot of these out here in the southwest. I've even seen a few that were designated as street patterns, then during one of the inevitable housing booms, were resurrected into actual neighborhoods. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) -- Message posted via AviationKB.com http://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forums...ation/200704/1 |
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"Street pattern" notation on charts?
Some Other Guy wrote:
JGalban via AviationKB.com wrote: Matt Barrow wrote: IIUC, it's where streets were laid out, but no buildings erected (ie, RE development gone bust). Yep. There are a lot of these out here in the southwest. I've even seen a few that were designated as street patterns, then during one of the inevitable housing booms, were resurrected into actual neighborhoods. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) Do you have any lat/lon coordinates? It sounds like it could be an interesting Google Earth trip. There's one at N32.554, W111.717. I have heard that there is one of these in this area south of Phoenix that is an old World War II Japanese interment camp. Not sure if this is it. It doesn't look like it on Google Earth (named streets and some houses). Mike |
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"Street pattern" notation on charts?
Mike Adams writes:
There's one at N32.554, W111.717. I have heard that there is one of these in this area south of Phoenix that is an old World War II Japanese interment camp. Not sure if this is it. It doesn't look like it on Google Earth (named streets and some houses). That would be the Gila River camp, which is he http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie...06952&t=k&om=1 It looks abandoned. The place you're looking at seems to be just another one of those abandoned or underdeveloped subdivisions that one sees in areas like Phoenix. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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"Street pattern" notation on charts?
Mxsmanic wrote:
That would be the Gila River camp, which is he http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie...02,-111.830392 &spn=0.004455,0.006952&t=k&om=1 It looks abandoned. The place you're looking at seems to be just another one of those abandoned or underdeveloped subdivisions that one sees in areas like Phoenix. Yes, that's the spot I was looking for. Interesting curving pattern of irrigated farm fields to the northwest makes it easy to spot. However, I don't see that one on the sectional or TAC with the "street pattern" identification. I guess it's just viewed to be not that clearly visible as a landmark. The historical aspect is interesting, however. Mike |
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