Mxsmanic wrote:

Danny Deger writes:


I am thinking about buying a 1946 Taylorcraft that has NO gyros at all on
the panel. I really want at least a turn and bank so I want die if I loose
reference to the horizon for any reason. I have been told that the heading
information from a GPS is good enough to do the function of a turn and bank
and allow emergency operations without having a visual horizon reference.
Is this correct?


A GPS can only determine your track over the ground, which may not be
your heading.




True, but utterly irrelevant.





If there is no wind, both are the same, but if there is
any wind, your heading could be significantly different from your
ground track.


Completely and totally irrelevant.




GPS cannot determine your bank angle.


No need to.





In theory a GPS could determine
if you appear to be making a standard turn, if there is no wind.


The wind is irrelevant. Speed and rate of turn are all that is needed.


All the rest of the drivel snipped.