Navigating with a Sectional

I miss my old private days, navigating at 500 AGL. Well, i missed it so much that I decided to do the same on my commercial: navigate from Daytona Beach to Lake City at 500 to 1000 AGL. It was quite an adventure, because the sectional chart here is 1:500,000 and not as much detailed as it should be. Too many airspaces, prohibited areas, but not enough information about the terrain contours. Many roads and small rivers are not depicted and the lines of height as well are not shown. For someone that loved to do that low-"contact"-navigation using really amazing maps, 1:250,000 with every road and river, contour height lines, it wasn't an easy task... Yeah, i miss flying in Israel!

But anyways, it was harder to follow the planned route here, at such a low altitude. But the checkpoints were found - you can't miss the big lakes here, and are airports everywhere :) Here people fly higher, and simply use Airports as checkpoints. No one really invest all that time planning the chart, with the minutes along the route and everything. Although the Israeli military and old method is not used here at all in navigation, it is printed in my subconscious instincts - "heading, speed, altitude, clock, map, terrain" - I used it again at the lowest possible altitude and guess what - it always work! My instructor was impressed with my map and dead reckoning, and another instructor said in my stage 1 check ride that he is sending students to have tutoring with me for flight planning :))

Enough talking, check out some pictures!
Daytona Beach - Lake City Municipal - Cecil - Daytona Beach.

Cecil Airport

Don't bother the picture, that's our 737PE, the oldest lady of the Seneca fleet. It still flies exceptionally well, VFR , off-course.