Wednesday, May 03, 2006

GPS data from Martha's Vinyard trip ...

So, my instrucor, who has a personal GPS sent me these data pics from his GPS, which he used in the trip. But, I didn't use at all, because I have to use my pilotage skills!


This one was the track for the way back. It is pretty decent, considering that it was at night, and I was under the hood. Meaning, that I was wearing a hat which allows me to only see the instruments. So, I was flying based on the instruments.
There is a big corner right before the coast, where I almost flew straight to the west. I was writting something on my log papers, and I kept my left hand on the yoke, so I found my self in a steep turn to the left : ))

this one is the altitude. I was flying on 4500 ft above the sea level, which is pretty much the same as the surface level here. The spike is just the GPS went crazy. Just it is worth mention ing that the GPS altitude data is not accurate. Someone explained it to me, I think it's because it only uses two satelaites for the altitude, or something like that.

Anyways, I thought they very interesting.

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