I understand in Europe the cost of outlanding is almost prohibitive, so
flying always within the capture zone of a known 'safe' airfield is almost
essential. Roland Poss was in out club several years ago and did
considerable research on outlanding strips and flew always within final
glide range of
When I fly away from Camden I use oziexplorer and the ozlig 1:25 maps and plot all
the landing fields I can find in the area where I am flying, and just number them z1
to z99.
When I load them into my GPS 89, I can then use the go to nearest key.
Naming them z1 to 99 ensures they do not inter
rrain map turned on, which
is a shame.
Cheers,
Jim Kelly
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At 08:39 AM 29/09/03 +1000, you wrote:
>I understand in Europe the cost of outlanding is almost prohibitive, so
>flying always within the capture zone of a known 'safe' airfield is almost
>essential. Roland Poss was in out club several years ago and did
>considerable research on outlanding strips
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> I underst
t;Ian McPhee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| I believe the plan within gliding in Oz is to use more
airfields/airstrips
| as turnpoints
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Has anyone coordinated/updated GPS data in Victoria recently? I
> understand that the Geelong Gliding C
On 1 Oct, Ian McPhee wrote:
> I believe the plan within gliding in Oz is to use more airfields/airstrips
> as turnpoints rather than the silos which were needed for the photo days.
> Unfortunately comp organizers tend not to put the field elevation in
> official downloadable data bases so we do no
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I understand in Europe the cost of outlanding is almost prohibitive,
so
flying always within the capture
