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Old 30th November 2011 | 11:59
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Genghis the Engineer
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I long ago decided that if a GPS doesn't say Garmin on it, I'll regret owning it sooner or later. So, I fly with a Garmin Aera 500 at present, and am delighted with it. I had a PDA/GPS/FMS combination which was vastly inferior to any dedicated aviation GPS that I ever used.

Other tools I do use however:

Navbox Proplan

Aviation Tools Free for Android

Great Circle Mapper

And a 1:500,000 retracting tape measure bought online from Aircraft Spruce.


To be honest however, I do still do a lot of my flight planning the old fashioned way with a Plog and whizz-wheel. I find it enjoyable, and going over the chart carefully makes the flight subsequently less likely to hold surprises.

Plus, flying only about 100 hours per year, I don't begrudge a bit of time spent flight planning.

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