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Before GPS: How Did Pilots Navigate in the Early Days of Aviation?
Navigation is something we do every day without even considering it. In its simplest terms, navigation is getting from point A to point B. It's fairly easy when the distances are short, and the environs are obvious. Finding your way to the kitchen in your own home, for example. But when the distances grow longer, and if the destination is unfamiliar, then the challenges increase. (aeroxplorer.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Now, even the 60s, 70s, and even the 80s seem like early days of aviation. We used our brains, VORs, NDBs, maps, and clocks.
IFR = Ifollow roads. In the old days we just looked out the window for the highways
I thought it went: "I Follow Roads, Rivers, and Railways"
What about places where there are no roads. My uncle flew in Northern Canada and when I went along with him he would hand me a map and tell me to scan ahead for different features. Today I often look down on those same lakes and rivers and keep track of where I am.
wrong...some of us in here actually are legit. aviators & know what we are talking about....I flew IFR in the "old days" ("amber" airways). Of course wasn't as good, safe, or easy as present-day nav. (with my Garmin 750 for example)....but it worked.
I hope you're not implying you're part of the legit aviators bunch you clown lmao