PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Will Degrees Magnetic be eliminated eventually?
Old 20th April 2006 | 18:53
  #1 (permalink)  
sstaurus
 
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 30
Likes: 0
From: Canada
Will Degrees Magnetic be eliminated eventually?

Not sure if this is the right forum, but I'm a newb and this is training related.

Reading in my textbooks, I found out that all GPS/Satellite Navigation is in deg True. Even though currently most charts are in Magnetic, it says eventually Magnetic will likely be eliminated as all air-navigation slowly switches over to satellite navigation/GPS.

Is this true? Is radio-navigation going to eventually go away? And GPS will be it?

Is the trusty ol' compass due to be retired? I was kinda sad reading that, thinking I won't get as much use out of all the radio and chart reading I'm learning about.

Anyway, thanks for any comments!
sstaurus is offline