Chart Plotters

[Newbroom]

Ha - a new cat to set among the pigeons here!

I do exactly as you do - north up for charts and head up for radar.

However a lot or people like head up/course up for charts.

In my statistically unrepresentative sample, 100% of the male fighter pilots I've trained can't understand north up at all - head up is all they can do. On sharing my gender bias observation one of them said "when you're travelling down a valley at 700mph you have no spare brain capacity so we do head up".

Fair enough........

I prefer head up on charts and North up on radar but keep a screen on the chart plotter as north up which can be quickly utilised if temporary confused by say a direction of a cardinal bouy danger.

 

[longjohnsilver]

I’m also a N up for charts and head up for radar man.

Several times I’ve looked at charts head up and I’ve found it very confusing. I’m a simple soul.

I have a full size chart table on Eos and I do like to have a chart to give an overall view of where I’m going. However mavigating at a stabilised 7kts is a much more relaxed affair than trying to read a chart plotter at planing speed. Also down here in the SW we don’t have too many hazards to be concerned about, so most of the time I use the chartplotter for ETA and steering a straight course. And to check on AIS when I get bored.

But it’s all different when we go to France, Ile de Batz, Treburden, the Raz, Morbihan etc etc all provide different challenges. There I will use both paper charts and zoomed in chart plotter to set routes the day before departure. That is fun.

 

[Elessar]

I prefer head up on charts and North up on radar

now that is a new one for me!
But whatever works for you.

 

[MapisM]

Positively +1!