Originally Posted by
QDMQDMQDM
gcolyer,
We'll stick it on your gravestone. And maybe we'll add: "He died doing what he believed in."
Good for you.
QDM
Cheers. At least my headstones is sorted
If anyone has an old spamcan that needs to be scrapped can you donate it to be my coffin?
Originally Posted by
englishal
gcolyer,
Funny innit....
Damn lazy people relying on GPS who may get into trouble when the !!!!! hits the fan....yet it seems to be the ones WITHOUT GPS which seem to be the ones getting lost and hence into trouble.....
make of it what you will
QDM
I never got lost. I puked, got caught in a bad snow strom and could not see anything so i could not navigate visualy, no IMC or IR just 50 odd hours. Thought i would track a VOR out of it but the instrument failed.
Even so would a GPS really have sorted me out?
Newly qualified
Never used a GPS
Never flown in IMC (a few hours under the hood)
2000 in the pennines (freezing level just above)
Trying to get to grips with spatial disorientation
Worrying about ice
Worrying about carb ice (even though i had carb heat on, the snow was really belting at met)
Generlay packing my pants
I really dont think it would have helped at the time. However i have since used a GPS and i do like it. But I also thinks it makes you lazy. I tested the the theory. I wrote a flight plan and got my mate whos is a pilot to go over it. We then went and flew the route. I followed the flight plan he followed the GPS, half way i switched the GPS off and asked my mate to tell me where we were on the map. He was about 40 miles of course.
Bottom line is there is no wrong or right when it comes to using a GPS. But there is a wrong or write if you decide not to follow a proper flight plan using traditional methods at the same time. I mean think of all the money you wasted on a whizz wheel, ruler, protractor and southern map for the exam.
Any way this forum has gone slightly wonky. It was about some chaps panic flight with his first PAX. So I thought I would let him know he is not alone by telling my first pax flight.
Anyone have a nightmare with flight with PAX, especially their first PAX flight.