Originally Posted by
scooter boy
Fell off my chair laughing at the one about the old boys at the Royal Navigational Institute! Hilarious!
C'mon chaps, IO540 is right here - GPS is entirely dependable as a primary navigational aid - period.
Relying on other navigational sources to the detriment of GPS just because some numptie programmed in the wrong coordinates once and got lost and then broadcast it on a forum - what utter nonsense.
Both of the helicopters I have owned have had GPS as the sole navigational gadget - sure I carry a current chart and know how to look out of the window still but your eyes are far more likely to deceive you than the GPS!
The aircraft I currently own has 2 GPS units fitted and I am happy navigating IFR across europe in airways using them as the primary nav source and VORs for backup when I can be bothered to tune them in.
Lets be honest here - the GPS denouncers are just wasting time turning knobs and identifying navaids when they should be reducing workload and looking out of the window more.
I really cannot believe that this debate goes on.
All those old duffers at the RNI twitching at the thought of GPS - they would have bloody apoplexy if they came flying with me!
Bygones etc...
SB
oh dear, what a great example, you set to new aviators, I doubt, that your engine, ever runs out of oil ! so why bother checking it, before every flight ?
just forget everything you have ever been taught, of course it will be ok,
I wouldn't fly with you. if it were offered for free, apoplexy, sure, it could, no, will save my and others lives one day.
oh the "old duffers" at the RNI do NOT denonce GPS at all, what they say is, GPS should be used secondary NOT primary, what did you do, when the GPS signal failed ? apart from pray