[kanga]

So whats wrong with a map?

'real aviators use charts'

[creweite]

Nothing providing it is on my tablet!! And it was always maps when I learned to fly many years ago!

[kanga]

.. And it was always maps when I learned to fly many years ago!

ah, you may not have had crusty old ex-mil instructors ..

[creweite]

Actually former ATA personnel, male and female both at White Waltham.

[kanga]

Actually former ATA personnel, male and female both at White Waltham.

ah, likely to be less grumpy ?

The late ATA lady with whom I had a close family connexion used to say that she was always hopeless at map-reading [sic]. Before WW2 she used to use Bradshawing a lot, if necessary flying low enough to read station nameboards, but this was not practical once the nameboards were taken down in the war. Fortunately, she had a good memory for railway routes and junctions, and once near the South coast (in the combat zone, without radio or armament, of course) she could recognise resorts where she had holidayed by their piers. Quite a lady.

She flew in a light aircraft after the war only once, as a passenger of her new PPL daughter in the '70s. She did not enjoy it.