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-------------------- Richard Kaplan, CFII www.flyimc.com "Dan Luke" wrote in message ... should be discarded - yet, but implying that GPS is a NAV system for wimps, or that an approach GPS is not useful in real-world IFR flying is ridiculous. I don't think anyone said that. As for me, I teach in a full-motion flight simulator with not one but three IFR GPS units -- no question I see the value of GPS. That said, an IFR approach GPS is simply economically impractical for a Cessna 152. There also is absolutely no reason why one cannot get an IFR rating in an airplane with conventional navigational equipment and learn to use an IFR GPS for approaches at anothe time. Thanks. |
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If anybody thinks it's really silly for me to do IFR training with only
1 comm and 1 nav I'd guess I'd like to hear that. To borrow an old analogy,,,, you can do it, but you'll be busier than "a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest",,,, especially when you have to identify a VOR intersection (that is one that is defined by intersecting radials of two VORs). -- -- =----- Good Flights! Cecil PP-ASEL Student-IASEL Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond! Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com "I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet" - Cecil Day Lewis - "Paul Folbrecht" wrote in message ... I took the advice of Richard & others and put the 300XL up for sale. I'll keep my 295 instead - and by the way I have never had the slightest problem with reception with the standard antenna with the unit yoke-mounted. So, all I'll have is the KX-155 with GS receiver tied to a 209 indicator and a Garmin 340 audio panel with marker beacons, which I also picked up used. Quoted intall price for this equipment is under $2K. As for the audio panel, my plane doesn't even have an intercom yet (I'm using a portable), so this should be well worth the money. I couldn't get an appt at the avionics shop until May 10th! Argh. |
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"Cecil Chapman" wrote
If anybody thinks it's really silly for me to do IFR training with only 1 comm and 1 nav I'd guess I'd like to hear that. To borrow an old analogy,,,, you can do it, but you'll be busier than "a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest",,,, especially when you have to identify a VOR intersection (that is one that is defined by intersecting radials of two VORs). You know, people told me the same thing. These were people who HAD done it, but only as a special training exercise designed to increase workload. When I started my instrument training, it was diffcult at first - and then it wasn't. Being limited to a single VOR made me realize that I couldn't cross-check ALL the time - so I didn't. Instead, I started to cross-check when I needed it - and I discovered that I really didn't need to do it all that often. Why not? Well, my situational awareness improved. I began to think in terms of what the crosscheck was telling me - and it told me a lot more than "You're not there yet." If the needle is four dots out on a VOR that's 20 nm away, there's no point crosschecking 30 seconds from now. Why not? Well, at 20 nm every degree is 1/3 nm. Four dots is 8 degrees, or 8/3 nm. That's almost 3 nm. At 90 kts, it will be 90 seconds before it centers. Checking sooner than a minute from now is a waste. Realistically, once you develop situational awareness, 3-4 crosschecks will be plenty - and that's not too hard, especially if you have a flip-flop. Dead reckoning is the basis of all navigation - everything else is just a crosscheck. The more limited your ability to cross-check is, the better your dead reckoning skills will become. Training with minimum equipment makes for maximum skill - a skill level you never achieve if you don't train that way. Does it take a little longer? Sure, but you're flying your own airplane so the marginal costs are minimal. And it makes sense to train to that standard - that way, when you do it for real and have the GPS going, it's a lot easier in real life. What's more, you're not lost when the GPS goes TU. Michael |
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