Moving Map Orientation Poll

[201er]

  On 9/12/2016 at 8:05 PM, Marauder said:

My mind is wired for North Up. Maybe it has something to do with the fact I was flying since paper was king and I couldn't read upside down.

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Nah. It just makes more sense that way. The map is always pointed the same way just as the Earth is. The only thing that turns or moves is your little plane. I actually can't imagine how people fly track up and have Florida on its side or Long Island on top of Cape Cod

[Marauder]

  On 9/12/2016 at 8:25 PM, 201er said:

Nah. It just makes more sense that way. The map is always pointed the same way just as the Earth is. The only thing that turns or moves is your little plane. I actually can't imagine how people fly track up and have Florida on its side or Long Island on top of Cape Cod

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Same with me. I would be more confused (like the dentist) with track up. 

[takair]

Really interesting question and results.  I use track up...even in the old ForeFlight.  Was flying RC long before full size, so that does not correlate with me.  Track up just seems more intuitive...to me.  Clearly North up is more intuitive to others.  I don't have an HSI, so I use the 430 map as a poor mans HSI, I can interpret intercepts and wind correction faster this way.  In the old map days, I would plan north up, but would tend to rotate the map in flight for orientation of landmarks.  I find that I just don't interpret north up as fast as track up.  I suppose one downfall is that I have to think a little more when I have to vocalize my position to ATC with relationship to a landmark.  I wonder if this is a left brain vs right brain question?  

[rbuck]

Definitely north up, whether it's paper or a digital format. I still use both in the cockpit, and I think it's easier to keep things in one perspective throughout a flight.