DICK says: "If Capn Bloggs should surrender his instrument rating, I should too. I agree totally with his views on this issue."
Then both of you should do it and the atmosphere will be a safer place for those of us who know how to read the instructions and carry them out, enabling us to conduct safe non-precision instrument approaches, time after time after time.
and then Dick distorts reality with: "Surely it is obvious from the terrible history of GPS approaches that there are problems. How many more lives will be lost before some really good “human factor” work is done on the approach to make it simpler?"
What terrible history Dick?
Both the Benalla and Lockhart crashes were the result of a pilot not complying with the internationally recognised, world's best practice, authorised procedure. And in the Lockhart crash, the co-pilot was not rated, had no training on reading the RNAV approach chart and therefore could not give his Captain the assistance he required to conduct a safe non-precision instrument approach.
You believe in internationally recognised, world's best practice don't you Dick?
Is that because you can't come up with anything sensible or workable on your own?
You also support AUSSIE OWNED don't you Dick?
Did you import all that electronic crap from the Chinese Army so many years ago instead of buying Australian made electronic wizardry from hard working local Aussie businesses?