VFR Sectional Wall?

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Has anyone ever thought about doing their walls filled with vfr sectionals? Kind of like wallpaper? I thought it would be kind of cool? Or am I just weird lol? Has anyone done this before and have pictures?
 
I've seen a few FBOs that did a wall with them. You can get close, but they won't completely mosaic perfectly. I had on my office wall the entire US done in three JNC charts.
 
flyingron said:
I've seen a few FBOs that did a wall with them. You can get close, but they won't completely mosaic perfectly. I had on my office wall the entire US done in three JNC charts.
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Do you think it would look cool if you bought all the sectionals and put them together on the wall? Like a big wall map?
 
shyampatel94 said:
Do you think it would look cool if you bought all the sectionals and put them together on the wall? Like a big wall map?
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TWO of each of the sectionals...front & back...:D

I ordered something like that from Sporty's a couple of years ago.
I believe it is this one:
http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/16623
I put little peel and stick dots on the airports I have landed at.

-Jim
 
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Kiddo's Driver said:
TWO of each of the sectionals...front & back...:D

I ordered something like that from Sporty's a couple of years ago.
I believe it is this one:
http://www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/16623
I put little peel and stick dots on the airports I have landed at.

-Jim
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Does that map have like all the airports and what not? And what is the different between sectional and world aeronautical map?
 
shyampatel94 said:
Does that map have like all the airports and what not? And what is the different between sectional and world aeronautical map?
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It is rolled up right now. It was in my office at my last job and has not made it up on a wall yet.

It covers the WHOLE continental US in 59" x 36" chart. It does not have all of the detail of a sectional, but it does a pretty dang good job.

Jim
 
I was thinking about doing it with the World Aeronautical Charts. It would be a whole lot cheaper than the sectional chart.
 
I don't know how they compare. FWIW, I like my 36" x 59" panel. It is great for two guys standing in front of it talking about where you have been, where you would like/need to go, and how long it will take to get there.

From the Sporty's site:
Printed in full color, the map displays important land data like terrain, major roads and cities. Aeronautical data includes: all airports with runways greater than 4000’, navaids, class B airspace and special use airspace like MOAs and Restricted Areas. Airports include three letter identifier for easy GPS planning
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Jim
 
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Our pilots lounge has WAC charts on one wall, centered on Russellville. Not enough space for the entire US but enough to cover any flights or first legs (except or a few jets) made from our airport. Sectionals won't cover enough area unless you have a really big wall. Then you would need a big ladder to see some of them.

Either one wallpapers well.
 
KCRE (North Myrtle Beach SC) has just such animal...I saw it Saturday...it is pretty neat...
 
I've seen no fewer than two dozen walls covered with sectionals. Even had a roommate do it in a common space. Gets old pretty quick.
 
I put the whole west coast in WACs and H-charts on the hallway wall to make the point to our scientists that special use airspace represent significant flight planning obstacles, and as an example of just how much information can be crammed into a display. I found half the staff used them to plan driving vacations.

Instrument charts tile, but VFR charts don't north/south (they do east/west). The issue is standard parallels used for the conic projections.

I've seen premade wall charts in several FBOs. You can't use them exclusively for planning, as parts of them expire every 56 days. Each chart lasts 6 months, but they aren't all on the same schedule.
 
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I did it last year: Atlanta to Cincinnati filled the entire wall bottom to top, so you would need a huge wall for the ConUS. I would use WACs next time. Here's a pic:
 

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Kiddo's Driver said:
It is rolled up right now. It was in my office at my last job and has not made it up on a wall yet.

It covers the WHOLE continental US in 59" x 36" chart. It does not have all of the detail of a sectional, but it does a pretty dang good job.

Jim
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I have one of those on my office wall, it shows the larger airports but certainly not all of them. Works great for ballpark flight planning though, showing terrain and special use airspace. I use it a lot for "what if" quick flight planning when I'm trying to avoid being productive at work.
 
I have the New York Sectional up on the wall of my cubicle. I used two of them (my old expired ones) to show both sides, and taped them together.
 
I used the sectionals for the east coast to the Rockies ,used push pins to mark airports I landed at. Have since downsized to a condo. So no sectionals and no pictures.
 
my old flight school used to do this. i think they only had new york sectionals up though
 
I did that in my den maybe 20 years ago. Captain is partially right. It did get old, but it took several years.

Every now and then I wish I'd have folded up and kept most of those.
 
Hell, I put the Los Angeles sectional up on my wall monitor and it's way too distracting - can't imagine anything bigger
 
My home field has a sectional "wall". Also they hung a piece of string and weight it down with a nail, from airport location. String has distance markings (100nm, 200nm, so on) and you can use it to get approximate distance between home airport and whereever you going.
 
Sectionals would be neat, but the finest aviation wall art that I ever saw was in France at Boos, near Rouen. This was over forty years ago, but the walls of the clubhouse were decorated with murals based upon the Bayeaux Tapestry, but with the Norman invasion force in Bleriot monoplanes! And one scene that I remember were two homebuilders running away with a radial engine stolen from a parked Farman Goliath biplane airliner which had many more engines than the original had! A most whimsical and amusing piece of work. Perhaps I should add that this was at an RSA Rassemblement, the French homebuilders organization and I met Paul Poberezny there. I wonder if the murals still exist?
 
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KLAA (Lamar) has a wall done up in them, it's pretty cool, I would love to do it for an office someday.


I have a Colorado aviation chart hanging on my wall currently.
 
I had one made out of old sectionals for a long time. I'd put in pins whenever and wherever I landed somewhere new.
 
Perry Stokes - Trinidad (TAD) has a wall like that.

I put together a fragment with a local area, but I did not have enough space on my walls to make it very useful even for Arrow, so I swapped them out for a JNCA-5 chart. Thinking about returning sectionals back now that my airplane's range is more limited. Probably can do with just two :-)
 
My wife papered all four walls of the throne room in our master bath with high altitude Jepps. Not perfectly matched, but in a generally geographic order as you work your way around the small room. Still interesting to me after eight years, since I have only ever used O-fish-al US guvmint charts to fly with.

Edit: Oh I see you wanted photos, too:

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Butler Aircraft's FBO at KRDM has a wall like that, and an attached scaled string you can stretch out to get raw course/distance information.
 
catmandu said:
My wife papered all four walls of the throne room in our master bath with high altitude Jepps. Not perfectly matched, but in a generally geographic order as you work your way around the small room. Still interesting to me after eight years, since I have only ever used O-fish-al US guvmint charts to fly with.

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poa1.jpg
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Nice action shot. Thank goodness Internet smell technology doesn't work well yet. LOL!
 
Young pilots were doing that on college dorm walls more than 40 yrs ago, and I'm sure long before that.
 
At my FBO, we have WAC charts on the wall. Used to have a string with ranges, but it's now missing. Our WACs go out to the Rockies, IIRC.
 
Like others mentioned, they don't line up well, plus the conical projection would have them arranged like this: (screenshot from skyvector)
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I have one wall of my apartment with both halves of the NY and WAS SEC, and the south half of the DET SEC. They are nearly floor to ceiling, and take up the full width of the wall.
 
If your going to actually glue them to the wall like wallpaper, make sure you don't buy laminated ones. It is the same if you want to frame one behind glass, don't buy laminated.

It's a ***** finding glue that is removable and also sticks to plastic. If you put a laminated one behind glass without mats, since glass condenses moisture, and plastic wont absorb it, you will have wet spots all over your chart or picture.


-John
 
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