IO540 - the problem with GPS is twofold.
1) its so good that people use it all the time and forget how to cope without it.
2) the units have so many options and a limited interface that results in an inordinante amount of heads down time fiddling with it.
I've no problem with them myself - I have a Garmin PilotIII and think its wonderful. Its useful in IMC IR training as you can show Bloggs in real time just how pants his hold pattern is. It is very useful to show blogs what is happening pictorally and get him to relate that to what the needles are doing. I find this allows Bloggs to build the mental model he needs in a fraction of the time it often takes without.
I think a lot of people bemoan the rise of GPS because it takes some of the skill away from aviating. Thereby devaluing it a little.
Unfortunately this is an age old and accelerating trend. Blatting about in a tiger moth is much harder than in a C152. In the future we will all be flying FADEC push button diesel engines with integrated GPS avionics and probably basic autopilots.
You could call it progress and be grateful or you could lament the facts.
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What bashing? This isn't bashing. Hell I've been in 27 page threads with death threats before now. This is barely a heated word.
Glad to hear you had frog suits on. Your chances of survival without are minimal even in the Channel in summer.
Right, I'm off waterskiing for the first time now. If I don't post again you'll know it didn't go well.
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ps I still don't believe your instructor sent you out solo navex with CB's visible.
