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Old November 13th 06, 05:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Neil Gould
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Default Setting altimeters with no radio

Recently, Mxsmanic posted:

Neil Gould writes:

It's a part of my 295, and every Garmin aviation GPS newer than that.


Those are receivers, not the GPS. WAAS is completely independent of
GPS.

When we speak of GPS _usage_ in aviation, we are specifically and almost
exclusively talking about receivers. Those are the devices that we either
have in our planes or take with us to the plane. All that is relevant is
that we understand the devices that we use. Therefore, it is easy to
establish that equipment that we don't have and don't use is of lesser
importance. That is one difference between a real life and a sim life.

Neil