Cheap Pilot III GPS in Jan sales?
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All,
During my PPL I was lent a GPS III Pilot by a good friend of mine for my QXC. Used it nicely for the first leg (to Southend) ... then thought "Sod this, this is boring", put it back in the bag and carried on using "good ole' fashioned" DR. Much more fun!
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During my PPL I was lent a GPS III Pilot by a good friend of mine for my QXC. Used it nicely for the first leg (to Southend) ... then thought "Sod this, this is boring", put it back in the bag and carried on using "good ole' fashioned" DR. Much more fun!
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Ham:
I just have to ask you this. <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
When these military instructors send an F16 pilot out to demonstrate his DR pilotage, do they give him 8 mile to the inch maps or 16 mile? Will they let him use a digital stop watch or must it be analog? Can he use his mickey mouse wrist compass?
But most important of all is does he become an instructor when he can demonstrate map reading on a five hundred mile trip at low level, at mach 1.5 with his 8 mile to the inch maps? <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.
I just have to ask you this. <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
When these military instructors send an F16 pilot out to demonstrate his DR pilotage, do they give him 8 mile to the inch maps or 16 mile? Will they let him use a digital stop watch or must it be analog? Can he use his mickey mouse wrist compass?
But most important of all is does he become an instructor when he can demonstrate map reading on a five hundred mile trip at low level, at mach 1.5 with his 8 mile to the inch maps? <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.
You certainly right to question the relevancy of map and stopwatch nav these days but that's what happens in the Royal Flying Corps as we march steadily in to the 20th Century! <img src="wink.gif" border="0">
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Hi again Ham:
I was only making fun of the whole aviation scene today, to many people get to carried away with relatively unimportant side lines.
So sometimes it helps to make fun of it. <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
Merry Xmas.
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.
I was only making fun of the whole aviation scene today, to many people get to carried away with relatively unimportant side lines.
So sometimes it helps to make fun of it. <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
Merry Xmas.
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.
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Let's keep in mind that in airline aviation we no longer require the use of a "Navigator" with "Sextant" and "Doppler" and "Loran" to work our way across the pond, eh? Omega/VLF Nav is history too! Today it's double or tripple IRS/INS and GPS coupled to FMS....with enough computer power to spit out more navigation info than anybody knows what to do with.
Just what's the point in learning how to use a slide rule when any hand-held calculator is 1000 times more accurate? Get real.
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Just what's the point in learning how to use a slide rule when any hand-held calculator is 1000 times more accurate? Get real.
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Yeh, Glueball:
It just never ceases to amaze me that these morons who are in charge of flight training are still using the E6B computer to teach navigation!
It is very simple to teach a new student the triangle of velocities using a pencil, paper, protractor and ruler.
Once the student understands this very simple fact of flying ie. the wind will cause either a lower G.S. ,, higher G.S. or most common, drift, then anyone with any I.Q. should go to the electronic calculator to flight plan and to navigate in the air use the most accurate nav. aid. G.P.S.
Of course for VFR flying an up to date Aviation map is a must. Having said that G.P.S. makes flying not only easier but safer.
Wow! they are still teaching flying using the E6B amazing, just simply amazing. I wonder if you crash and need to survive do they still teach starting a fire by rubbing two sticks together?
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.
It just never ceases to amaze me that these morons who are in charge of flight training are still using the E6B computer to teach navigation!
It is very simple to teach a new student the triangle of velocities using a pencil, paper, protractor and ruler.
Once the student understands this very simple fact of flying ie. the wind will cause either a lower G.S. ,, higher G.S. or most common, drift, then anyone with any I.Q. should go to the electronic calculator to flight plan and to navigate in the air use the most accurate nav. aid. G.P.S.
Of course for VFR flying an up to date Aviation map is a must. Having said that G.P.S. makes flying not only easier but safer.
Wow! they are still teaching flying using the E6B amazing, just simply amazing. I wonder if you crash and need to survive do they still teach starting a fire by rubbing two sticks together?
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.
