Roger Brady is a man who knows about flying and flight planning. With more than 5,000 hours on fast jets, and even more on Jumbo jets, he knows how to read a map at low level and high speed. More importantly, he knows how to draw lines on a map to make it readable!
After the usual training, Roger flew Buccaneers operationally for five years. He then taught the art of fast jet low level navigation at RAF Valley in North Wales before going off to Saudi to fly Hawks.
Nowadays, flight planning for Roger, flying a 747, involves computers to do the number crunching and a GPS to avoid having to draw lines on the map. Things were not always that easy for Roger, and as a student pilot he was annoyed by the many different of pieces of kit provided by the Royal Air Force for simply drawing (the correct) lines on (the correct bit) of a map.
Out of this experience, and a desire to win a crew-room wager, Roger devised The Brady Rule, which is a mix of various planning gizmos used in RAF crew-rooms up to that point. The fact that there is still a demand for this amazing device is testament to the effectiveness of it. For more than 30 years now, QFIs have told students to get one for doing their maps. Now you can buy them direct from Roger instead of having to track down somebody who has one, and then trying to persuade them to let you borrow it.
Recently, with more of the fast jet community retiring to fly Archers and 172s instead of F3s, Harriers or Jaguars, we have noticed a market for having a Brady Rule for GA speeds and maps.
We now have a GA version, which concentrates on speeds of 90 & 120 Knots instead of 420. Small enough to go inside your kneeboard, smart enough to do the nav exam for you, (I made that bit up) your Brady Rule will save you hours of calculating time, as well as making your map lines easier to work with.
19 May 13