First Nav Ex - Eyebrook - Bitteswell

Well this was my first experience of Nav, plogging and flying a route. Sat down with a map and draw a triangle on the map from Markfield to Eyebrook to Bitteswell and back to Markfield. Calculated the length of each leg, got the wind forecast for 3000 feet and used the whiz wheel (and my Pocket Pc app) to calculate headings and ground speeds. From this you can get the times for each leg. Mark the half way points, and draw fan lines 10 degrees either side of track, to help you if you go off course.

Flying the route worked out well, no correction and give or take 10 seconds the times worked well too. Important to remember again to navigate via watch, map then ground to confirm your location. Also when turning onto the new legs, gross error check - oh and Freda checks all the time as usual!

But quite an interesting flight, had a look at bruntinghthorpe again, and made more of a visual note of what Markfield looks like - 3 huge quarries next to the M1.