Expect vigorous debate on how best to orient your moving map. Here, I'll address that debate about the best orientation. But rather than reiterating all the opinions, I'll focus on what the published scientific research completed in the 1980s and 1990s had to say on that specific question.Remember the old days before moving maps in the cockpit? Navigation was a chore, triangulating one's position with two VOR receivers (heaven forbid if there was only one) or an ADF. Pilots could only get a general approximation of their position. In those seemingly antediluvian days, the NTSB accident database was littered with accidents in which the crew were pretty clueless as to their whereabouts, notably the infamous 1999 Little Rock, Arkansas, accident of an American Airlines MD 82 trying to skirt a thunderstorm. The captain, having lost situational awareness, was recorded on the CVR saying "I hate droning around visual at night without having some clue where I am."
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