Today was ground school day. I had booked an hour with Liz to give me an introduction into the black arts of Navigation. The words ‘West is Best, East is Least’, Magnetic variation, Max drift and MSA, are no longer just meaningless words.
Max Drift =
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(IAS in nm/min)
has been explained and I now feel I can attack the Nav book with some confidence. Don’t let all these words put you off, if your learning to fly, browse the Nav book, have a ground school lesson and it will start to become clear.I went home with lots of notes and examples from Liz to work through over the next few weeks.