I was about to buy a plane with a longer a pillar --- darn it! I guess roll chart makes more sense indeed.

I know them from the Rally Dakar, I think up to recently they used them, I think they are super cool; great shout :)

I'd wanna grab a friend w/ a 3D printer to make one because I kind of like the flexibility of sellotape at the moment, especially the roll chart mount into the airframe

Roll charts and the kneeboard are good to know about now!

I've ridden a motorbike for 15 years and this is the first I've heard of roll charts!

Prior to phones, I would just scrawl my notes onto a sheet of A5 and tape it to the top of the tank. It didn't work well when it was raining.

I'm just starting out onto a motorbike and this is a stupidly brilliant idea, and I do have a 2.5" IBM receipt printer...

It's most common in the dual sport community. I ride dual sport rides here on the west coast that still provide roll charts as their primary routing.

I don't know if "Enduro" is still a thing, but roll charts were everywhere with that. Ones like these... https://www.john-stichnoth.com/sitebuilder/images/RollChartS...

Yeah, those are the ones I meant!! I think they were recently taken away from the Dakar and replaced with screens

I like any excuse to mention the Jones Live Map. Back in the day it hooked up to a car odometer and when the arrow pointed to a direction, you'd take it.

It works well as long as you never miss a direction, then it gets off.

It'd be horrible with the variability in land speed from the same engine speed, but maybe that'd be part of the "fun" trying it for an airplane.

https://www.sealcoveautomuseum.org/collection-test/jones-liv...

i had no idea this existed -- amazing

If you're ever in Maine, I highly recommend the museum. I'm not the biggest car guy, but it was neat seeing everything they had.