Near miss from space junk.

On Apr 2, 9:35 pm, Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2007-04-02, chris wrote:

As I tried to point out, the stuff that is placarded is the stuff
that's optional. I am not trained to use a VOR, for instance, so
having it placarded inop doesn't make any difference to me. All the
things I actually need definitely work.

You can train yourself to use the VOR quite easily, it's very simple to
use, and is a useful navigational cross check even if you're strictly
VFR (or flying VFR direct, you can use cross radials as navigational
cross checks).

The pilot's license is after all a license to learn, and avionics should
not be left out of that learning!

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I know roughly how to use a VOR and have used them occasionally, but
for 90% of my flying it isn't necessary, so I wouldn't care if I ended
up in an aircraft without one... I think DME is far more useful to
the sort of flying I do than VOR and I much prefer to fly one of the a/
c we have that has DME. Of course the plane I am about to do my big
trip in has a DME but for as long as I can remember it's been
placarded inop