Originally Posted by
foxmoth
" GPS"...... first learn to manage without it, then learn how to bring it in.
Except training doesn't do the second part
AT ALL. Instead we pretend that GPS doesn't exist and totally ignore it.
One of the things I think a lot of people don't think about is why the "traditional" navigation system was developed.
When it was perfected there was no way to know your exact position in real time. So traditional navigation was designed for the case where you only occasionally knew where you were and yet still had to figure out where you had to go.
GPS completely eliminates the central driving force that traditional navigation methods were developed to overcome. With GPS you know within meters exactly where you are and your track and speed
all the time.
The problem is that GPS creates new and different chalenges to safe navigation. all of which we by design refuse to teach to new pilots. How stupid is that.
