Originally Posted by
tangovictor
mm flynn's comment, I'm afriad you'd lose your bet, I was informed, that most infringers are cirrus pilots, so, even with all that expensive technology
I looked at all of the serious loss of separation infringements last year and NONE were Cirrus. And in the set I looked at, in ALL cases where Navigation was one of the main causes, non-electronic navigation was being used.
Cirrus pilots must just be lucky that they never infringe near anyone else given that they are 'most of the infringers'
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While blind faith in any box of tricks (i.e. GPS) or being a one trick navigator are problems, the lack of acceptance of the vast improvement in situational awareness afforded by panel mounted moving map systems is silly. Maybe commercial pilots should be made to use DR to satisfy their PRNAV requirements any time they are in sight of the surface if navigating using electronics is such a problem
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