@cessnapete: you are perfectly right for the FAA, but Europe is a different animal. There are so many odd things, last I saw was mandatory DME even when never used as requirement to enter local airspace under IFR (no idea how in the world this can ever be enforced), when flying around and it is only slowly turning towards the FAA light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, in reality you do use the GPS, but may have to carry the dead load equipment anyways.
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