Moving Map Orientation Poll

[201er]

Which way do you orient your moving map. Does anyone mix across devices (ex panel mount track but iPad north up)? Which way is right side up?

[gsengle]

Panel mouth, track up, iPad/Foreflight north up.

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[ArtVandelay]

Always north up...

[Bennett]

Always track up

[1964-M20E]

My panel mount is track up my portable is N up.  The portable shows standard charts where the text does not rotate with orientation.

 

 

[Hank]

I use Track Up, but picked the wrong button . . .

[ArtVandelay]

The plane moves, the earth is stationary, I like my GPS to reflect this reality.

[eman1200]

North up.

[jasona900]

Use to always be north up..but then started using track up and I prefer that much more.

[Danb]

My picture depicts track up, it used be north, when flying under control's to many changes I find looking for fixes etc easier to locate in the track up mode. I like to see where I'm going.

[Danb]

A more interesting question although it's dying like the ADF, is how do you 1. Lay out you enroute charts for initial planning. 2. If you fly with enroute charts how do you hold, thereby look and interpret them enroute.

[Robert C.]

North up on the G1000 but am going to try track up on FF to see what I'm missing and whether I can get accustomed to it.

[Bob_Belville]

I let the GTN 750 and the 696 choose. both are North Up when zoomed out and Track Up when zoomed in. Seems natural to me. 

[Piloto]

I use both on my GNS 530W. North up for flight planning and flight progress. Track up for guidance during enroute and approach. On the 530W switching from track up to North oriented is just one click on the right knob. The track up mode display a compass arc together with a CDI. You actually need both mode since it would be cumbersome to check the flight plan on track up. And track up provides easy guidance.

José

[gsxrpilot]

The 530W is always Track up for me. But the tablet running ForeFlight has always been North up. But I'm thinking of changing it to Track up with the new map engine in ForeFlight.

[carqwik]

Track up in the panel mount GPS always...

Garmin Pilot (Android) runs North up...if you run it track up, heading south, nothing makes sense...

[cnoe]

"Forgive me father for I have converted to Track Up".

But... when I enter a terminal area I often touch the "North Up" button on the iPad as it's hard to make an accurate position call (i.e. 10 miles NW of the field at 3,000') when the map is turned at some odd angle on-screen.

And Paul is right; Foreflight's new aero chart just made flying "track up" much easier.

[rbridges]

9 hours ago, carqwik said:

Track up in the panel mount GPS always...

Garmin Pilot (Android) runs North up...if you run it track up, heading south, nothing makes sense...

I'm the same way. Track up in the 430, and North up in the ipad foreflight.  

[Vance Harral]

Mostly north up, but track up is fine.  I try to be flexible, especially since CFI work and being in a partnership mean I don't always get to choose.

I think this has gotten to be less of a deal with modern navigators and iPad apps that make it easier to pan the map relative to your ownship symbol.  I was a north-up bigot in the days when track-up put your ownship at the bottom of the screen and it was a lot of trouble to look at stuff behind you (helpful when flying outbound legs and procedure turns on instrument approaches).

Here's a trivia question: of those who prefer north-up, how many of you are model airplane pilots?  I've always thought people already comfortable with the mental gymnastics of transposing their "eyes" into a virtual cockpit oriented in another direction, are likely to prefer north-up.

[ArtVandelay]

Here's a trivia question: of those who prefer north-up, how many of you are model airplane pilots?  I've always thought people already comfortable with the mental gymnastics of transposing their "eyes" into a virtual cockpit oriented in another direction, are likely to prefer north-up.

I'm not, even using maps while driving or nautical charts when boating, its always north up. Im curious if people turn maps, charts? And what about approach plates?

[Hank]

2 hours ago, cnoe said:

"Forgive me father for I have converted to Track Up".

But... when I enter a terminal area I often touch the "North Up" button on the iPad as it's hard to make an accurate position call (i.e. 10 miles NW of the field at 3,000') when the map is turned at some odd angle on-screen.

A quick glance at the DG will rectify your position relative to the field, just look at the bottom and that's where you are.

And for Vance, I upgraded from U-Control to RC not long after college, but have let it all slip in the great controller upgrade battle; don't think any of mine are permitted anymore. But that's alright, Full Scale is a blast!

[Awful_Charlie]

Heading up - that way the map reflects what is out of the window

[PaulM]

G1000: defaults,  Heading up for nav/traffic (tactical)   North up for weather  (strategic)

Tablet:  Foreflight: north up (strategic, planning, weather) + correct text alignment for frequencies etc. 

 

[Joe Zuffoletto]

55 minutes ago, PaulM said:

G1000: defaults,  Heading up for nav/traffic (tactical)   North up for weather  (strategic)

Tablet:  Foreflight: north up (strategic, planning, weather) + correct text alignment for frequencies etc. 

 

This is exactly the same as my setup.

[Marauder]

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.