OK Meeb:
If you feel I am muddying the waters how about giving me your opinion on the following.
Several years ago I had to write the Commercial Gyroplane Rotorcraft exam. It was a one hundred question exam of which seven were on determining time and distance by using time and bearing changes with an ADF.
Now if that is not stupid as well as about the most inefficient method of determining your position in this modern age please tell me what you would call it?.
Just one example of stupidity in the training, exam requirements brought into the sylabus because some moron had nothing better to do.
Have you ever "had" to use the ADF to determine time and distance from an NDB or any other radio transmitter that an ADF will receive?
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.