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Old May 19th 06, 06:41 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Land Rover in C-130 commercial

It is simulated, phony, but the speed issue can happen with
old GPS units. My recent hand held non-aviation GPS has a
limit of 951 mph.



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"Kingfish" wrote in message
ups.com...
| After seeing this commercial and viewing the documentary
on the Land
| Rover website, I still can't figure out how they got the
GPS unit in
| the truck to work while inside the plane. The doc. showed
a guy
| sticking something to the plane's windows that might be an
antenna, but
| I doubt a dash-mounted GPS in a car would have an external
antenna
| input? Also they said the speed of the plane might be an
issue for the
| GPS. Can't figure that part out either.
|