Fuji/IO540,
After reading both your posts, I have to concede that my last post was perhaps a little hasty. As you both point out, it is possible to do some of those things which I said weren't possible - but even though I concede that this may be true, I still think that all the examples I gave are far easier to do with a paper chart.
This is something I have found over many years, not just in aviation. In my previous job as a computer programmer, I often had to study many pages of computer code - a task which I found next to impossible on a computer screen, and far easier on paper, which I could spread around so I could see a large amount of information in one go, and mark it up as I needed. But then when it came to debugging that same code, it would have been impossible to do this on paper, and the extra tools that the computer offered overcame the difficulties of having only a limited amount of screen-space.
In aviation, in the vast majority of situations, the tools the GPS offers overcome the limited screen-space (and even the limited information which the GPS manufacturer has chosen to buy to put on the screen). But there are situations where these tools are not needed, and then the advantages of an old-fashioned map are once again superior. The examples I have given are those which, in my experience, fall into this category, although your experiences may vary from mine.
Please re-read my first post on this thread, and you will see that I am in no way anit-GPS, but I think it is very important to realise that modern GPS is so good that it is very easy to become reliant on it, and to make an effort to ensure that this does not happen. And, as a separate issue, there might be a small number of cases where it is not the best tool.
FFF
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