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Old 16th August 2007 | 19:22
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Shunter
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I have to say I don't entirely disagree with the lazy comment.

My old car used to have built in GPS, and I found that it DID cause me to be lazy. I'd just follow the satnav, not bothering to look where I was going. As a result I would struggle to find place I had visited many times if I had a car with no GPS in it.

I have a plane. It has 2xVOR, 1xDME, 1xADF and 1xGPS. It also has me, and a load of maps. To say GPS is not the single most accurate nav aid in the aircraft would be silly, but personally I don't put my eggs in 1 basket, and I use everything available to me. If the GPS were to die, I know I'm well practiced using the "old" stuff, and vice versa. I view it as a compliment, not a replacement.

I find a VOR very useful for enroute information as regards to drift, but when in the locality of a difficult-to-spot grass strip with no published VRP's, GPS rules every time. Whatever floats your boat really.
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