Do I need DME or ADF in an IFR-certified GPS panel?

On 6/7/05 21:32, "Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:20:34 -0500, No Spam wrote:

Looking for thoughts out there...

If I have an IFR-certified GPS (terminal, not just enroute), is there any
reason to keep a DME or ADF in the panel? (Other than being able to listen
to am radio or tracking "non-offical" navaids - e.g., am radio stations!)

TIA,

- Don
History does not long entrust the care of freedom
to the weak or the timid. - Dwight D. Eisenhower


Without an ADF receiver, I would not be able to obtain the local altimeter
setting at my home airport, and take advantage of lower minimums available
with that information.

I have no idea how many other airports there are where the local altimeter
is available ONLY via the ADF, but that is the case at KEPM.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)

Thanks, Ron, hadn't heard of such a case.

I see there's a phone number tied to your AWOS - have you tried calling it
airborne with a cell phone?

Never mind, that's illegal...

- Don
It's not how hard you fly 'em, it's how you fly 'em hard. - George Braly