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Old 2nd Mar 2024, 22:53
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Whopity
 
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On most training legs, the moving map could be taken away, such that loss of GPS and reversion to map reading would be a routine thing?
surely that sounds like:
teaching nav as it was taught a lifetime ago; map, compass and watch.
But as it is, she may discard the map and plog in favour of total reliance on skydemon, with no training on reversion to paper.
So you are proposing we do more traditional nav with map, compass and watch!

The process of navigation is the same today as it was centuries ago. The equipment we now have does it for us, meaning the operator is no longer capable of doing it without the equipment. The question is do we train the operator to do it conventionally or do we train the operator to cope with equipment failure. 50 years ago on the V-Force we called that Limited Procedures (LPs) and we practiced it all the time.

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