Originally Posted by
overstress
..., you must have read some of the AAIB's bulletins to be such an expert on them, in which case you will have forgotten that the AAIB regularly investigates all manner of incidents, including crashes, as you put it, but also many other incidents as well where not a scratch is put on anything.
Overstress,
I am not a compulsive reader of AAIB bulletins or safety progress reports, but do read a reasonable number, including the totality of the 2010 report. I can not remember any bulletin where over use of GPS featured as a material aspect of the report. Further, in the 2010 report I can not see a single recommendation related to over use of GPS.
With your greater familiarity with the material, I would be grateful for some links to the AAIB substance behind the original comment.
GE,
I am pretty sure you are both right and wrong on your paper chart comments.
Right, in that if a failure of your single source of navigation data (your electronic chart) resulted in an infringement - the CAA would certainly not say 'that's alright cause your laptop/iPad failed '. And they would seem to have a prima-facie that you did not have all necessary.... .
Wrong, in that you are not required to have a specific brand, source, or format of the necessary charts and information. So an upto date 530 and an iPad with digitised charts for the planned route would be all necessary charts, codes, data and would arguably be sufficiently resilient to be reasonably confident that you will have access to the information when required.