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Old 20th April 2006 | 03:37
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Sunfish
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Wot Justinmg said. The ground database, like the marine database, may not have been resurveyed for a hundred years, furthermore, air charts don't include the reliability diagrams that would alert you to the potential inaccuracy like a marine chart does.

Your Garmin should be accurate to a few yards in position (but not altitude, thanks to WGS 84). I have experienced one satellite failure (thankfully at sea) where the GPS transported me instantly thousands of miles to South East Asia until it was gagged.
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