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Old 1st December 1999 | 11:36
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BEagle
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No - between your pre-planned visual fixes you fly accurately having assessed your tracking/timing errors, re-compute your ETA, and then spend as much time as possible looking out of the window for other track-crawling idiots who are staring at their maps, the ground, their GPS moving maps - but are NOT looking where they're going. The number of times I've had to avoid PA28s and Senecas with bits of orange on them blundering about under VFR not looking where they're going because their pilots are buggering about with some tortuous and pointless flight log when they should be LOOKING OUT are quite a few!! You CANNOT use the same techniques in Class G airspace as in Class A if you want to avoid a collision!!