"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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Airspace does, especially after 9/11.

The GPS is just there to get you on your route - it's up to you to make
sure the route works. If you go on a flight without first marking your
route on a CURRENT sectional or l-chart and then comparing it with the
current TFRs, you deserve to be shot down.

A proper GPS would have all that information in its database.

GPS technology, especially on the receiver end, is still in its nascency.
Eventually, the GPS will have just as reliable a database as a printed
chart, because it will be updated in real-time, and the database copied to
the GPS will be the same one used to print the charts.

I agree that today, especially for non-IFR-certified GPSs, the GPS is
missing a fair amount of extremely important information. But it doesn't
have to be that way, and if it stays that way for any significant period of
time, we're just a bunch of idiots (who deserve to be shot down).

Pete