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Old 17th Jan 2011, 16:40
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When I was first learning to fly in California, USA...a number of radar mistakes lead airplanes into the sides of mountains. when I first flew to one of these airports, I insisted on flying the entire procedure as published...it added quite a bit of time to the flight, but I knew where I was every step of the way...right down to minimums.
EGPWS has greatly reduced CFIT from errant radar vectors. Not everyone has EGPWS/TAWS, although with the handheld VFR GPS devices that have terrain alerting they should.

Moving map MVA charts would be great, too. In fact, pilots with geo-referenced Jepp charts have just that, but not in the U.S. The U.S. filed an exception with ICAO to radar charts.
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