i have a check ride coming up (JYO-CBE-PHL) in prep for my long cross country. the first leg is dead reckoning/pilotage (no GPS or VOR, arg!) and i need to be prepared to divert at any time (which means i need to know where i am, how fast i'm moving, how to get somewhere else and how long it will take) so i was practicing a little using ms fsx (microsoft flight sim x) over the weekend. by the time i was done i had my e6-b, plotter, chart (going a long way across several folds just to make it harder), pencil(s), nav log and my watch all spread out.
doing the same in the cockpit with someone in the right seat is going to be entertaining. i'm thinking i might just put pieces of tape on them and stick them to the chief flight instructor i'll be flying with. i'm hoping that the landmarks that i saw (a city, couple of private and public airports, a river) will hopefully help with my poor visual recognition skills and it also clearly showed the smaller mexico farms (1W3) runways just south of CBE which i suspect adds to more care in the approach.
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I use a tri-fold VFR kneeboard from Sportys to hold stuff and have been happy with it. Good luck on the checkride.
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