Captn Pit Bull,
perhaps you misinterpretted my post; sure you need to identify the aid when you're using it but when you're tracking to an aid via the GPS, you're identification of it is by confirming it's lat/ long not its morse ident. If the aid that you're tracking to happens to be a VOR or ILS/ LLZ, by selecting the ident function on the navaid (if you also have it tuned) the panel will annunciate the morse code of the station even though you're tracking via a precision approach say (error scale has been decreased). I argue that this can cause confusion, entertaining the thought (if your not thinking clearly) that you have switched off enroute mode and selected NAV mode. The assumption here is that the GPS does not have precision approach guidance, e.g. Garmin 155 TSO or similar.
SNS3Guppy,
that's interesting. I think I would prefer if the GPS was given the boot and auto changed to NAV when an ILS frequency was selected... AS LONG AS THERE WAS A BIG BRIGHT LAMP FLASHING TO ALERT ME TO THE FACT!
Was this requirement waived in the early GPS systems?
On this particular night I stuffed up my verification of the source of the aid but I will be more cautious next time
