What's a good KNEEBOARD?

[urflyingme?!]

I have the tri-fold-- The long Jepp is better than the long asa
The plain metal flat ones, with the ifr or vfr notes and a simple legstrap are actually really great too. Lightweight and can still hold ur papers/pencil. You can put the chart underneith it or in the window/dash...

 

[Gulfstream 200]

best kneeboard is one that is towed behind a Malibu skier.

 

[Jedi_Cheese]

I wanted the Jeppenson but I got a really good deal on the ASA at EAA AirVenture and noone had the Jep long kneeboard so I took what I could.

The basic kneeboard is what I started out with. During Instrament training there is a a tendency for your flight bag to eat your charts and the charts multiply about 10 fold. The trifold tends to help in this regard.

I would be worried about flight bag clutter tho. You start with this huge flight bag and lots of space and you accumulate alot of 'stuff' along the flight training path and you need to decide which is important and what isn't. My kneeboard had the same thing when I went to the trifold and you wouldn't believe what accumulated there.

My advice would be if you are flying out of an uncontrolled airport, fly without a kneeboard till you solo and then pick up a basic kneeboard (if you are at a controlled airport, get a basic kneeboard). After you get your private, spurge and get a trifold.

 

[urflyingme?!]

Ski Natique Biatch!

 

[B190Captain]

When I was training I was a sucker and bought one of those overpriced sporty's pieces of sh!t. I never used it.

If you really need one just go to an office supply store and get a small clipboard. It's alot cheaper.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

NAUTIQUES are for poor people.

 

[urflyingme?!]

Ya um your nuts pal....
So are mercedes?

 

[7B2]

Never realized choosing a kneeboard could be a life altering decision.
I wonder what the regionals prefer you’d use during ppl flight training/

 

[Brett Hull]

Do not delay. Choose a kneeboard and get it on your leg ASAP! As a Bankair pilot told me and our sim instructor when we were getting our learjet types together: "A professional pilot wears a kneeboard". You can't have one strapped to your leg soon enough. You'll be a more confident pilot with one. They even make learning easier.







What are you waiting for? CALL SPORTY'S NOW!!!








p.s. I think some people around here are just a bit gullible.

 

[wingnutt]

yea, i thought i was cool at one time with my tri-fold kneeboard, until i got my first 135 job that is

whatcha need a kneeboard for? simply put...

• initial heading on the heading bug
• altitude on the ADF
• departure frequency on comm2
• and code in the transponder

...read it back as such, and youre ready to go

 

[Simon Says]

man if that's your woman on that bike, you are a lucky man,, what the hell are you doing chatting on these forums.... you know where you should be right now... lol

She is Good from Far, but Far from Good. It almost looks like she has a dented helmet.

 

[Simon Says]

I wonder what the regionals prefer you?d use during ppl flight training/

Go to the Regional section of this board and ask them. Don't let these PPL tell you what the regional pilots use as a kneeboard. I think that you will really enjoy the answers that you will get, and I know all those regional guys will enjoy sharing their knowledge of what the proper kneeboard is.

 

[Big Duke Six]

Call me a geek but I used a simple ASA flat metal one, just big enough to hold a SMALL legal pad. It had a leg strap, which was great for single pilot freight in turbulence. Some people may not feel a need for one, but I felt more organized having all my info in one spot. Maybe it was a holdover from pilot training in the Air Force. Sometimes I used the cheat info underneath the pad of paper, but hardly ever. If you don't fly often though, that stuff may be of some use, but I wouldn't choose one based on that info alone. You can always add/change the info to what you need.

Wingnutt, ADF's are for music and talk radio over the Rockies at night, not for altitudes! C'mon now!

Mainly you're looking for something on which to copy your ATIS, clearances and weather at any divert airports when those instances arise. Pens get stuffed between your leg and the seat so they don't disappear, and charts, well, those are for when the sun is in your eye and even a welding helmet wouldn't help...

 

[JJJ]

It will feel a little akward the first few times that wear a knee board. I suggest that once you get a knee board, wear it every where you go in order to get used to it.

Before you know it, you will be a walking, talking, living, breathing sportys magazine.

 

[squale]

It will feel a little akward the first few times that wear a knee board. I suggest that once you get a knee board, wear it every where you go in order to get used to it.

Before you know it, you will be a walking, talking, living, breathing sportys magazine.

LOL,,,, that's great advice.. you guys kill me!

 

[guido411]

What would you do or say if you were getting off your airline flight and here's the F/O standing in the door saying his "thank yous" and he has a knee board strapped to his thigh? I'd peek in the cockpit and ask the Captain if he was going to let tha F/O take the training wheels off for the next leg.

Seriously, learn to live without one, get a yoke clip.

 

[squale]

lol

 

[Big Duke Six]

Yoke clip?

LOL, but I've never been able to write on a yoke clip. And trying to read whatever you have that's on there while flying is another trick I never quite mastered I guess.

On the plus side, I do believe a CEO in the back of his yoke-clip equipped Cheyenne came up with The Bobble Head doll idea after watching his pilots flying instruments in turbulence though....

 

[guido411]

Well, for us poor Cheyenne drivers we're gonna have to settle for the yoke clip and writing our clearences on the back of a one-sided Jepp plate. That is until I get to one of those Airbuses like you, Big Duke. I think then I'll just write in dry-erase marker on one of the PFD's, does that work? ;-)

Happy Bobbling!

 

[squale]

Is there any good money in being a pilot WITHOUT working for a commericial airliner?

LIke I hear lots of people complain that they don't make much money being a pilot.. and for something that costs so much for training, I just don't understand why there isn't more money in it for the pilots''