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Old 22nd Mar 2009, 23:00
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Relying on GPS is all well and good, but you should still have some idea what you're putting in.

If you put rubbish into the GPS, it'll give you rubbish back.

For the ATPL exams you will still need to use a CRP-5, no electronic flight computers or programmable calculators. I think this is so you actually have some idea what the wind drift means rather than just putting numbers into a machine.
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