I passed the checkride, now need a good GPS and passenger headset

Exuse me for cutting in but I have to utter a hearty "Bull****!".

You're not "cutting in," you're joining the discussion. Welcome.

I was out of flying for 15 years after flying every day for various part 135
outfits.

I had a somewhat similar experience. I could not afford to fly at my
expense when I got out of the marine corps after six years and went
back to college then had a mortgage and four kids to feed.

Seventeen years later my two boys got out of school and enlisted.
Suddenly there was money left at the end of the month! I could afford
to start flying again.

The difference was amazing. I had never seen a VOR or an ILS. I had
never heard "...radar contact seven miles north of...."

I had to learn the new instruments and the new rules. But it was a
hell of a lot easier! IFR flying was now child's play compared to
what it had been in the days of Acock ranges and ADF approaches.

In a similar way, GPS has made it a hell of a lot easier.

I probably only use 10% of what that GPS is capable of doing.

True of me, too. But that's all the new private pilot who ''needs" a
GPS would use, too.

vince norris

Vincent,

I probably only use 10% of what that GPS is capable of doing.

True of me, too. But that's all the new private pilot who ''needs" a
GPS would use, too.


Right. Just like running the engine at 10 percent power, closing the
doors only 10 percent, landing well only 10 percent of the time and so
on.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)