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#1886079
Oldfart wrote:Surely you mean Track Up!!! The picture out of the window then relates to your screen.
I don't recollect any professional Flight System I have used being North up. Or perhaps that dreadful Smiths system on the Viscount? But now I'm showing my age!


Bingo! But it took more than two hours - standards are slipping ;)
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lobstaboy wrote:Bingo! But it took more than two hours - standards are slipping ;)


But only the merest fraction over two hours to get a bite! :lol:

Rob P
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lobstaboy wrote:
Loco parentis wrote:During 2010, I wrote a short piece to the BMAA, subsequently published in Microlight Flying...

Note: No mention of 'moving map'.


Did you mean 2010? I don't think correspondence from that long ago has much relevance today. Moving map GPS devices were very unlikely to be available to Microlights then. /snip/


I had a Memory Map (moving map) device in December 08, standard 1/4 mil CAA charts. Logbook entry:- “GPS power busted!! Navex old style”. Enroute to Oban 27-12-08.
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Oldfart wrote:..
I don't recollect any professional Flight System I have used being North up. Or perhaps that dreadful Smiths system on the Viscount? But now I'm showing my age!


The (at the time) worldleading (Gloucestershire, of course :thumright: ) Smiths system in the Trident is displayed in the cockpit of the JAM example (a 3B, so probably younger than any Viscount). It's definitely Track Up. :)

[Another thing Viscount and Trident had in common is that the last customer for new ones of each was the Chinese State airline CAAC :wink: ]
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By skydriller
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lobstaboy wrote:
Loco parentis wrote:During 2010, I wrote a short piece to the BMAA, subsequently published in Microlight Flying...

Note: No mention of 'moving map'.


Did you mean 2010? I don't think correspondence from that long ago has much relevance today. Moving map GPS devices were very unlikely to be available to Microlights then.


I bought a Garmin 196 when it first came on the scene, say around 2002?? The GPSMAP III is older than that and I distinctly remember microlights at my aeroclub with them attached... :cyclopsani:

The Garmin 196 still works, its carried to this day as a backup backup on longer trips... :mrgreen:

Regards, SD..
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Paul_Sengupta wrote:
David Wood wrote:asking the natives 1) do they speak English; and, if so, 2) where-the-hell-are-we?


Ah, you're thinking of the Fugawi tribe of pygmies.

There was a moving map software package called Fugawi, named after the tribe...

https://www.fugawi.com/


I've used that software and never considered where the name came from. You learn something new every day! :thumleft:
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By David Wood
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Paul_Sengupta wrote:
David Wood wrote:asking the natives 1) do they speak English; and, if so, 2) where-the-hell-are-we?


Ah, you're thinking of the Fugawi tribe of pygmies.

There was a moving map software package called Fugawi, named after the tribe...

https://www.fugawi.com/


Part of me hopes that the software used in the PAW system is called something like Fugizit.
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