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Maps and Charts for Visual Air Navigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

Neill Leary
Neill Leary
Affiliation:
(Aeronautical Charts Section, CAA)
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Extract

Back in 1914, an army surveyor who was carrying out an airborne reconnaissance of potential sites for a new military aerodrome to the west of London is alleged to have held his map upside down – and that, consequently, RAF Northolt was built to the south of what was then called the Great Central Railway Line instead of about a mile to the north-east near where South Ruislip is now. A short apocryphal story perhaps, undoubtedly distorted by the mists of history, but it serves to illustrate the need for aeronautical charts that are designed with the requirements of visual air navigation firmly in mind.

Keywords

Maps.Air Navigation.
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 1 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1993

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