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Old 10th Jan 2012, 10:14
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mad_jock
 
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Nope was 90's when it was designed and they all came fitted with GPS of some form even if it was a trimble.

The age I am living in is the age which 95% of the world fleet of aircraft are in.

How many aircraft types have been certifed since 1992? Not many.

Maybe a Q400 driver can tell us what thier box of tricks uses I suspect its DME/DME though.

I know you will never be swayed with your reliance on GPS and the rest of us are dinasours. For me it is a very useful tool in the box which gets treated like any other bit of information in the cockpit. ie it gets cross referenced against something else.

Personally I am quite glad that there are cooler heads out there putting the brakes on ditching all the rest of the gear and putting all our eggs in the one box.

Personally I do think we will get them but it won't be with the current kit.
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