Geocaching/flying

"Henry Kisor" wrote in message
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Any pilot who's also into ground geocaching? I'm thinking about buying a
new
GPS receiver to use for that purpose, but also wonder if these hikers'
GPSes
can also be used for aviation, perhaps as a backup navigation instrument.
(I
use an older Trimble for flying.)

I use a mid-level Garmin. Haven't used it myself for air navigation yet,
but I've had my wife take it along and do things like turn it on to see if
it disrupts anything (nope) and see how well it works.

The short answer is, it works great except the altitude data can be pretty
erratic. Other models may have better alt determination, but I sure
wouldn't trust the altitude data on them.

Beyond that, it's great. We carry it and a digital camera everywhere we fly
now.

-c

"gatt" wrote in message
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"Henry Kisor" wrote in message
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Any pilot who's also into ground geocaching? I'm thinking about buying a
new
GPS receiver to use for that purpose, but also wonder if these hikers'
GPSes
can also be used for aviation, perhaps as a backup navigation
instrument.
(I
use an older Trimble for flying.)

I use a mid-level Garmin. Haven't used it myself for air navigation yet,
but I've had my wife take it along and do things like turn it on to see if
it disrupts anything (nope) and see how well it works.

The short answer is, it works great except the altitude data can be pretty
erratic. Other models may have better alt determination, but I sure
wouldn't trust the altitude data on them.

Beyond that, it's great. We carry it and a digital camera everywhere we
fly
now.


Then you should know about oziphototool-- works with oziexplorer to
automatically mark on a map where your pictures were taken, by examining the
timestamps of your pictures and the track from your gps!

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ

"John Clonts" wrote in message news:MWayc.4350

Then you should know about oziphototool-- works with oziexplorer to
automatically mark on a map where your pictures were taken, by examining
the
timestamps of your pictures and the track from your gps!

That's very interesting! Thanks.

-c

"gatt" wrote in message ...
"Henry Kisor" wrote in message
...
Any pilot who's also into ground geocaching? I'm thinking about buying a
new
GPS receiver to use for that purpose, but also wonder if these hikers'
GPSes
can also be used for aviation, perhaps as a backup navigation instrument.
(I
use an older Trimble for flying.)

I use a mid-level Garmin. Haven't used it myself for air navigation yet,
but I've had my wife take it along and do things like turn it on to see if
it disrupts anything (nope) and see how well it works.

The short answer is, it works great except the altitude data can be pretty
erratic. Other models may have better alt determination, but I sure
wouldn't trust the altitude data on them.

Beyond that, it's great. We carry it and a digital camera everywhere we fly
now.

We do too. Have a camera case that the camera and GPS both fit in
nicely. Our camera has a 10x optical zoom which will take some decent
pics from the air. http://pad39a.com/gene/house.html
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.