On 9/7/04 6:50 AM, john smith wrote the following:

For those of you using handheld GPS's when you fly IFR:

Do you use the throttle to increase/decrease power to match the ground
speed to the approach speed table so the time is correct to the MAP?

Or,

Do you use the distance to the airport to determine/verify the MAP, even
though the time may not have expired?


Either activity seems unnecessary to this relatively new IA pilot.
Maybe because I already have enough to do on an approach.

Option 1 also sounds like a good way to get dangerously slow if you have
a stiff tailwind.

Doesn't seem like the MAP is that important. So what if you are a bit
early or late when you decide you can't see where you're going? The
result is the same, or should be.