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I managed to pass my nav flight, so I thought I would share some of my tricks - some of which came from here. I used removable sticky tape to write colour-coded cues for radio frequencies, altitudes, radio calls and transponder/ATIS/QNR and pre-landing checks. I drew five mile circles around all the aerodromes, and five and 10 mile circles around the aerodrome that I intended to land at. That prompted me to notify aerodromes when I was passing close to their pattern, and do landing checks (five miles) and do approach calls where I was landing (10 miles). By doing the call at exactly 10 miles, ETA = T + 7, in my plane. I also coloured the border of the different maps with different highlighters. That enabled me to get the correct side of the correct map easily.

 

For my destination airport, I wrote the elevation, circuit height and overflying height, CTAF, runway names, and if the circuit was left or right (S or Z - shaped) so I could picture the runway names and dead side as I approached the aerodrome to overfly it. With the heights all written down, I would not have to do maths under pressure. I must say, none of this info is presented this way on electronic displays, so at the moment, I plan on using paper maps for navigation and GPS just to confirm my position. All comments welcome, and the more critical the better - negative feedback is valuable.

 

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P.S. You can also use the removable sticky tape to sticky tape shut the bits of the map that I was not going to need. Apart from that, I was just using the standard sheet with the headings and times, and a couple of checklists, especially the clear off checklist.

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The trouble nowadays is that you have to replace your various maps every time CASA adds a full stop.

 

One of the benefits of an EFB, keeping all the paper current was the thing I hated most about flying before oz.

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I can remember the good old days of getting updates for the WAC charts, had to put them on the chart by hand. That as before VNC charts.

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Clear tape you can write on and which does not damage the map when it comes off? Where do you get that?

I like to use ozrunways as well as a map. most of the time, you just have to keep the blue plane near the pink line on the display... and I reckon a smart guy could set it up so that you got a reminder when a radio call was required. Since I'm not smart, I like the idea of marking the map.

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and I reckon a smart guy could set it up so that you got a reminder when a radio call was required

Add a waypoint on your pink line where the call is required. Name the waypoint your frequency.

It won't become permanent on the map, just on that plan.

I use it for area frequency boundaries and QNH boundaries.....you could put it 10 nm out (or whatever) from airports as well with the ctaf freq.....

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Paper maps always work, no matter what any electrons are doing. In a previous capacity as an aircraft plotter for our Rapier battery, we used clear plastic (talc) with chinagraph pencils to plot a/c positions. Wipe the marks off after an engagement and start again and not sacrificing a map and to keep the treasurer happy. Ken

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Clear tape you can write on and which does not damage the map when it comes off? Where do you get that?

I like to use ozrunways as well as a map. most of the time, you just have to keep the blue plane near the pink line on the display... and I reckon a smart guy could set it up so that you got a reminder when a radio call was required. Since I'm not smart, I like the idea of marking the map.

Search for removable magic tape. I failed the parental book covering course. I bought some China graph pencils but they melted in a Sydney heatwave. I use OzRunways with paper as a backup, I use the old maps to wrap presents.

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Nice work. You can’t beat the 8 P’s when it comes to nav prep! I also talc and use chino on my WAC’s (and on the big clear whiteboard beside me as well sometimes) and 2b pencil on the ones that you replace a lot. Love OzRunways but always take and plot ona paper map (even just postn Fox’s and times will do)...

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Clear tape you can write on and which does not damage the map when it comes off? Where do you get that?

I like to use ozrunways as well as a map. most of the time, you just have to keep the blue plane near the pink line on the display... and I reckon a smart guy could set it up so that you got a reminder when a radio call was required. Since I'm not smart, I like the idea of marking the map.

Scotch Magic Removable Adhesive Tape. Officeworks online. I don't think it is availble from the shops.

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Paper maps always work, no matter what any electrons are doing. In a previous capacity as an aircraft plotter for our Rapier battery, we used clear plastic (talc) with chinagraph pencils to plot a/c positions. Wipe the marks off after an engagement and start again and not sacrificing a map and to keep the treasurer happy. Ken

Where do you get talc from? Or are you using Clear Contact?

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Col, haven't bought any in many years, used to get it at our news agent, in one square metre sheets that we cut to size. I think Talc was a trade name but it was hard clear plastic af about 1mm thickness, much like the old shirt box cover. Office Works may have a similar product.

Ken

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Where do you get talc from? Or are you using Clear Contact?

These days I get them laminated. Go to Office works they will do the entire map, then decide carefully where you want to fold it!!!! Sorry Talc is like saying an esky... It used to be a thing now its just a generic name.

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Clear tape you can write on and which does not damage the map when it comes off? Where do you get that?

I like to use ozrunways as well as a map. most of the time, you just have to keep the blue plane near the pink line on the display... and I reckon a smart guy could set it up so that you got a reminder when a radio call was required. Since I'm not smart, I like the idea of marking the map.

 

AvPlan and I assume OzRunways allows you to ‘draw’ on your map (annotate) so you can combine “old skool“ with your EFB.

 

I draw on things like radio calls and L / R hand ccts. Under settings, select annotate and then you can draw, erase etc.

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Also if you use AVPlan you can have the circles drawn (at set intervals) around your aircraft so you know how far away you are from an airport. So this can eliminate the need to draw on a physical map. 

 

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