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Old June 12th 05, 07:29 PM
Bob Gardner
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I'll file that away for the day when most of the GA fleet is WAAS-capable.
I'm sure that the AIM will have changed by that time.

Bob Gardner

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Bob Gardner" wrote:
AIM 1-1-19(a)(8) tells pilots not to use GPS altitude: "GPS altitude
should not be relied upon to determine aircraft altitude since the
vertical error can be quite large."


Except when using WAAS, when it is quite small.

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Dan
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