Jay Honeck wrote:
Jay, I've flown with the terrain feature of a GPS. It is a complete waste
of money for a VFR pilot. It's even useless out here where we actually
have terrain. If where you fly there is a lot of antennas and you often
scud run and are dodging these antennas then an obstruction database may
be of some use.
Yeah, we've got the antennas depicted on both the AvMap and the Lowrance
2000c, and they're nice to have.
And some of 'em you don't even need to be scud running to hit. Those danged
things are thousands of feet tall around here!
Last I heard the tallest man made structure was the TV antenna between
Fargo and Grand Forks at 2000 AGL. The vast majority of antennas are
much less than 1000.
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