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I personally always have a handheld GPS in my bag
That's not where it should be
It should be in the panel, with a decent rooftop aerial. A completely different scenario.
TRAINING IN THE USE OF GPS GPS systems are becoming commonplace but their misuse is equally common
Where is the evidence for the mis-use of GPS? I am sure it happens but why throw out the baby with the bathwater?
In particular, and this is what I was getting at in my slightly daft suggestion earlier, are nav errors caused by misunderstanding of a GPS more common than those done while dead reckoning?
The latter cannot possibly be less error prone but, as I am fond of repeating, doing a CFIT while DR is just bad luck whereas doing a CFIT while on GPS is really poor airmanship
We can't have GPS within the existing PPL syllabus because the 45hrs is already too short for most people, so this is a pointless discussion really.... in the meantime, the PPL population is shrinking, partly because people don't come out with the skills they need to go somewhere half interesting.
Anyway, I am off for 2 weeks and 4000 miles, dodging TCUs at FL150 and navigating with GPS as PRIMARY (with VOR/ADF/DME backup on the rare occassions I will find some) the whole time