Can GPS be *too* accurate? Do I need some XTE??

"Icebound" wrote in message ...
"SelwayKid" wrote in message
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"Icebound" wrote in message
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In the "good old" VOR days, it must have been pretty difficult to fly
down
the centerline of an airway (or of any direct track).

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As for being difficult to fly the VOR, it was/is no more difficult
than flying a compass heading and holding it.....which many pilots
seem unable to do anymore. They would prefer that electronic gadgets
do their flying for them and no thoughts as to what happens when the
electrodes take a vacation.


Never having flown a VOR course myself... I still doubt very much that any
two pilots (OR auto-pilots), flying reciprocal headings between two VORs,
would both be able to *simultaneously* hold a course to within 10 feet of
the centre-line for the whole course, considering the receiver errors and
that the VOR radial-signal *itself* probably varies more than that.

I could be wrong.
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Icebound
If you have never flown a VOR course, where in hell do you fly? And,
if you have never flown a VOR course, what do you know about them or
what their capabilities are? Part of the PTS for every US rating
involves VOR.
Beyond that, let me ask if you are a licensed pilot? Hmmm, well you
may be in another country, perhaps 3rd world without VOR but even
then, of the 26 countries I've worked in, all had VOR coverage of some
kind. So again, where do you fly?
Ol Shy & Bashful