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GPS is easy to learn after full training on the standard instruments.
Hmmm... as a pilot you are obligated to learn every piece of equipment in your aircraft. The GPS is a piece of equipment that could really save your skin and the aircraft if the single engine quits. Instead of your current attitude, you really should consider incorporating all of your equipment into your training. The reason not to, is that one needs to learn VOR/DME/ADF navigation and attitude flying, and there may be a tendency to rely on the GPS, to the detriment of the more basic =training=. One would therefore have less than ideal basic skills. You are right, GPS is a wonderful tool, and should =also= be learned and integrated. However, the hard part of GPS isn't the GPS or the map or the needle... it is the interface, and they are =far= from standard. Teach someone VOR and they are good to go in most any plane. Teach someone GPS and they will still need a type rating(*) for each and every other GPS system on the planet. Jose (*) note to Steve - this is not to be taken literally - this is merely a figure of speech. I know what a real type rating is. ![]() -- Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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Jose wrote:
The reason not to, is that one needs to learn VOR/DME/ADF navigation and attitude flying, and there may be a tendency to rely on the GPS, to the detriment of the more basic =training=. One would therefore have less than ideal basic skills. IMO and E, the basic skills of attitude flying rely on scanning the primary six-pack, whereas tracking a VOR, localizer, or GPS would be considered the secondary skills. I do not see how utilizing the GPS for navigation would negatively affect ones attitude flying skills. But, then again I am not an instructor, nor a multi-decade experienced pilot, so perhaps I am typing out of my derriere. ![]() You are right, GPS is a wonderful tool, and should =also= be learned and integrated. However, the hard part of GPS isn't the GPS or the map or the needle... it is the interface, and they are =far= from standard. Teach someone VOR and they are good to go in most any plane. Teach someone GPS and they will still need a type rating(*) for each and every other GPS system on the planet. You do have a good point there. In thinking about my comments, I now see that they stem from the fact that I own and fly the same aircraft. I had overlooked the interface differences between the different IFR-certified GPS's. By the way, I do not advocate letting one's VOR skills atrophy in favor of the GPS. I have had three GPS failures in my three years of active instrument flying experience, two on approach (one GPS-software related and one RAIM failure) and one en route (database expired at 00z while flying, which required a reboot of the GPS and five minutes to re-acquire). The latter failure caught me with my pants down as the VORs were not set as a backup. -- Peter ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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I do not see how utilizing the GPS for navigation
would negatively affect ones attitude flying skills. It probably wouldn't. But I didn't say it would - I said it would negatively affect learning =basic= skills, such as VOR navigation, whose user interface is drop-dead simple. Jose -- Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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