Frankly I'm baffled. A gadget which eliminates all uncertainty over where you are 'decreases your situational awareness'. And how does that work?
You know courtesy of the not invented here, work of the devil, GPS - and that knowledge decreases your situation awareness - because the others are stiull using ADFs? Or it is a Yankee conspiracy to reduce the skill set which real aviators need?
Even if someone is doing a classic 'Darwin Award' they are unlikely to turn right onto a railway line or turn left into a canal. Even the poorest GPS will likely have a line indicating controlled airspace.
Even if it doesn't they still do know where they are - which would not have been the situation previously (pre-GPS)..
A bit more thought would have been appropriate - particularly from a body like the AAIB. Or are they heading back into G-styx terriority?
Last edited by gasax; 1st Jul 2012 at 20:16.