Reporting Distance as DME/GNSS
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If you're getting your bottom chewing up the seat cushion over giving a position report to decimal places, I hope you're synchronising your watch and passing the data exactly to the second....
ATC will probably react like this.....
ATC will probably react like this.....
Those South Australians on CST may certainly put a cat amongst the pigeons if not on Zulu.
Pinky, This thread has been all about good Australian humour almost from the start..
(The OP perhaps asked a rather inane question?)
Pinky, This thread has been all about good Australian humour almost from the start..
(The OP perhaps asked a rather inane question?)
What do I say if I'm referencing an FMC position derived from triple IRS's with GNSS updating?
Honestly I don't care where you are deriving your distance from and I won't broadcast where I'm getting mine from unless asked. If I though we are that close and it mattered, I'll ask.
AOTW I'm with you, "GPS" was so much easier to say than "GNSS". Hell even "RNAV" was easier than "GNSS"!!
Leadie, we have had some good banter but in this instance what you say below I couldn't agree more with!
If someone makes a position report relative to an aerodrome, I'll assume:
- the position information is probably accurate, irrespective of what reference is being used,
- the position information might be 180 degrees wrong, and
- there is other traffic that's either not fitted with VHF, not using it, or on the wrong frequency.
- the position information is probably accurate, irrespective of what reference is being used,
- the position information might be 180 degrees wrong, and
- there is other traffic that's either not fitted with VHF, not using it, or on the wrong frequency.
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You of course are all aware that GPS (Global Positioning System - the American system of satellites) was superceded in nomenclature terms by GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) several years ago, right? Nothing changed, except GPS=GNSS. GPS/GNSS is used in lieu of DME....
Aw C'mon Pinky,
At the speeds at which you and I travel these days, it matters not whether you add a reference after the 'magic numbers', COZ, by the time you've finished it all, you are going to be a bit closer, and if I am the one in your way lookin' for ya, I won't care much if you're not 'xactly' 31.16 recurring, as long as I see you 'somewhere' at around the 30 nm mark OR SO, I'm happy...!!
Couldn't resist the 'tough'......
Cheers, LOTS of 'em....
At the speeds at which you and I travel these days, it matters not whether you add a reference after the 'magic numbers', COZ, by the time you've finished it all, you are going to be a bit closer, and if I am the one in your way lookin' for ya, I won't care much if you're not 'xactly' 31.16 recurring, as long as I see you 'somewhere' at around the 30 nm mark OR SO, I'm happy...!!
Couldn't resist the 'tough'......
Cheers, LOTS of 'em....
