Thread: RNAV vs IFR GPS
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Old February 28th 04, 02:49 AM
John R. Copeland
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john smith wrote:
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Richard Hertz wrote:
You are filing /G and you don't know the answer to this?
Where do people get their IFR 'training' these days?


That's not necessarily a fair criticism.
For those of us who have been flying since the 70's, we still think =

and
refer to airspace as TCA's, TRSA's and ARSA's. So we still remember =

RNAV
as VOR/DME, while LORAN and GPS are essentially global navigation
systems (although, technically, that's still another, different form
altogether).

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I;ve been flying since the late 1950s and I adjust. TCA, and ARSAs =

seem
quite alien to me these days. Then again TRSAs don't because we still =

have
those.
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I think the criticism is quite justified.
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Me too, Sammy.
I've been flying since the middle fifties, and I've adjusted pretty =
well, too.
GPS approaches are a far cry from 4-course Range orientations,
and the Range Approaches that I learned to do without an ADF.
(Follow the edge of a leg into the cone of silence, then turn to xxx=BA =
and descend.)
Oooh, those were fun!
And why do I remember 3023.5 kHz? (Except they were kc back then.)
---JRC---