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Does anyone know where I can get free charts? I would like to learn how to navigate the old fashion way. Radarman, you would probally know.
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sorry the electronic navigation option didn't come up. Something must of happened. Make a post if your chose is Electronic navigation.
GPS and sometimes a compass-fly by the seat of your pants, with a little tech help.
I love all types of Navigation.... It's probably the area of FS I enjoy most.
I mainly navigate by programming FMCs in the modern airliners (most use IRS, an Inertial based system using lasers, that is often referenced against a GPS).
However, I've also completed a lot of flights using pure VOR navigation, with no GPS reference at all.
But the latest thing I've been playing with is the INS (Inertial Navigation System), the old version of IRS that uses Gyros and Accelerometers to determine position referenced against only the starting point. I'm using the version in 747 RFP.
But like RadarMan, I occasionally like to just try heading off in a certain direction and using purely a compass to try and find where im going
but what about the printable charts
Charts are BIG BUCKS.... You'd think the Net would be crowded with free charts to download but it ain't - software from Jeppeson and the likes is not cheap, and I'm not aware of any proper free charts but I ain't the best surfer, so if anyone else finds what your looking for, I'm sure they'll post details.
List of sites here:
http://www.tony.smiths.btinternet.co.uk/msfsgate_nav2.htm
Free ones here:
http://www.airnav.com/
and here:
http://www.myairplane.com/index.php
hope this is what you are looking for.
Randy A
Taiwan
PS I'm flying mostly with NDB's this month.
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