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My historical flights map

PostPosted:Sun May 12, 2019 4:42 pm
by neil9327
The result of a quick 10-minute sketch with MS Paint to record the path of most of the flights I have undertaken over the past 5 years. Includes Scotland, Cornwall, and the north coast of France.

Just looking for ideas for where to go next, that I haven't done. Probably somewhere with decent scenery.

Based near Southampton (fairly obviously).

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Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Mon May 13, 2019 8:38 am
by Miscellaneous
neil9327 wrote:Just looking for ideas for where to go next, that I haven't done. Probably somewhere with decent scenery.

I'd say it's an obvious choice for scenery and a new area…north of Glenforsa - Dundee. :D :wink:

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Mon May 13, 2019 8:47 am
by rikur_
A fairly obvious gap to plug would be the east coast.
Something like - fly up to Fenland; then skirt the Wash; Skegness; west of Donna Nook; detour up the Humber to the Humber Bridge; then perhaps a bimble up the Vale of York and pick one of the various clubs there for a comfort break. The head back to the coast; Scarborough > Whitby > Redcarr > Sunderland > Linderfarne and then back to somewhere like Eshott for a break before returning south.
On a day like today I love the east coast - varied from rugged cliffs, lighthouses, beaches, hidden coves, holiday camps, docks, industry, bygone industry, wind farms, and more.

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Mon May 13, 2019 9:07 am
by Miscellaneous
rikur_ wrote:...holiday camps, docks, industry, bygone industry, wind farms, and more.

I guess we don't all have the same understanding of decent scenery? :D :wink:

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Mon May 13, 2019 10:52 am
by malcolmfrost
There appears to be a glaring gap around Caernarfon! I think Snowdonia has some reasonable scenery :D
West Coast of Ireland around Aran is also pretty nice!

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Mon May 13, 2019 5:38 pm
by Charles Hunt
Once across the channel just keep heading S or SE!

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Mon May 13, 2019 10:26 pm
by neil9327
rikur_ wrote:A fairly obvious gap to plug would be the east coast.
Something like - fly up to Fenland; then skirt the Wash; Skegness; west of Donna Nook; detour up the Humber to the Humber Bridge; then perhaps a bimble up the Vale of York and pick one of the various clubs there for a comfort break. The head back to the coast; Scarborough > Whitby > Redcarr > Sunderland > Linderfarne and then back to somewhere like Eshott for a break before returning south.
On a day like today I love the east coast - varied from rugged cliffs, lighthouses, beaches, hidden coves, holiday camps, docks, industry, bygone industry, wind farms, and more.


Sounds like a plan. I would include "industry" in the list of potential scenery, as some artifacts look quite impressive from the air.


malcolmfrost wrote:There appears to be a glaring gap around Caernarfon! I think Snowdonia has some reasonable scenery :D
West Coast of Ireland around Aran is also pretty nice!


Ireland is a possibility. And looking at it again I can see that the distance over water to get there from Wales is actually no greater than from St Catherines Point to the Cherbourg peninsula - which I did in 2015 with a wetsuit, personal locator beacon, a lifejacket, and some swimming lessons..

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Tue May 14, 2019 7:19 am
by Lerk
Out of interest, how did you make that?

Was it as simple as paint and scribbling the rough route over a map?

I wonder if skydemon logs could be overlaid in a similar fashion...

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Wed May 15, 2019 1:10 am
by neil9327
Lerk wrote:Out of interest, how did you make that?

Was it as simple as paint and scribbling the rough route over a map?

I wonder if skydemon logs could be overlaid in a similar fashion...


Just a simple scribble with paint I'm afraid. And I can already see some inaccuracies (such as putting Alderney too far west).

It would be good if skydemon logs, or any logs for that matter, could be overlaid in a similar fashion. One idea I have is to fit a 360-degree camera to the aircraft, get it to take a photo every second, and then upload them to a google maps website showing a trace of your flight, so that you can click on each point of the flight and see the photo taken at that point. A bit like Google Streetview, but for aerial photos.

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Wed May 15, 2019 7:37 am
by Miscellaneous
neil9327 wrote:
Lerk wrote:Out of interest, how did you make that?
I wonder if skydemon logs could be overlaid in a similar fashion...

It would be good if skydemon logs, or any logs for that matter, could be overlaid in a similar fashion.


They can. Select log from SD and choose the option explore in Google Earth, repeat. :D

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:59 pm
by adgillham
Being close to the S coast too, I second France. In exchange for about 30 mins over water (and some form filling) you could claim back some of the fuel duty too!

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Wed Aug 14, 2019 12:04 am
by Pilot H
If you happen to have Golze in-flight weather, all your flights for the receiver will be painted in one collation in the "Tracking" section of your on line account.

It gives exactly what you have done in paint.

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:30 am
by skydriller
Miscellaneous wrote:
neil9327 wrote:I wonder if skydemon logs could be overlaid in a similar fashion...

It would be good if skydemon logs, or any logs for that matter, could be overlaid in a similar fashion.


They can. Select log from SD and choose the option explore in Google Earth, repeat. :D[/quote]

Yes, but they have an unsightly log number / time and all sorts also on there, which gets in the way...any way to eliminate that?

I have only once found a mapping program that made acceptable looking rout maps...then couldn't ever find it again!!!

Regards, sd..

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Sun Aug 18, 2019 4:30 pm
by T67M
I can automatically produce a "straight line" route map using the online electronic logbook, logbook.aero:

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I can also get the GPS trace for a single flight:

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I can't, yet, get all of my tracks overlaid as you've done - but maybe the author of logbook.aero would add this as a feature if enough people request it.

Re: My historical flights map

PostPosted:Tue Aug 20, 2019 4:14 pm
by Lefty
Miscellaneous wrote:
neil9327 wrote:
Lerk wrote:Out of interest, how did you make that?
I wonder if skydemon logs could be overlaid in a similar fashion...

It would be good if skydemon logs, or any logs for that matter, could be overlaid in a similar fashion.


They can. Select log from SD and choose the option explore in Google Earth, repeat. :D


I’ve got several hundred SD logs. Wouldn’t look very pretty.