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Old November 18th 06, 12:01 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default pilots only, please - gps or altimeter?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Timmay writes:

I'd be curious to have someone explain to me how GPS altitude
information is so inaccurate that I risk my life by setting my
altimeter with it.


A safer policy is to ask people to prove that GPS is accurate enough
to bet your life on it.


You have to mean VFR, since IFR requires an altimeter. Thus your
statement is ignorant hogwash. VFR is safe in good visibility
without even an altimeter.

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