There needs to be a balance between reliance on Gee-wiz boxes and knowing
how to use ALL of the installed & legal equipment. My DE (no longer active
as of May 31) wouldn't know what to do w/ the nav pages of a GNS 4/530. She
failed an instrument student for not being able to nav to an intersection
w/o the gps. (Agreed)

But the same student can have same gps and not know anything beyond direct .
Forget about flight plan or select approach, OBS, CDI. You get the picture.

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Thx, {|;-)

Victor J. (Jim) Osborne, Jr.

VOsborne2 at charter dot net
"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
gonline.com...
William W. Plummer wrote:

GPS is easy to learn after full training on the
standard instruments.

I don't see the logic behind this. You'll learn to fly an ILS; why not a
GPS?

Yes, you absolutely should learn to fly w/o the GPS. Similarly, you
should
learn to fly w/o the ADF, the AI, etc.

But I'd not put off GPS training any more than I'd put off VOR training.
It's a part of instrument flying, so learn it.

[Of course, if you don't have a GPS or an ADF, that's a different matter.
There's little reason to learn to fly a 2005 GPS if you don't think you'll
be flying a GPS for several years. Sadly, there's enough difference in
the
UIs to make that less than fully efficient.]

- Andrew