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Old April 7th 04, 06:04 AM
Richard Kaplan
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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I would not credit WAAS with much of it. The 5 sample GPS engine and the
pressure altitude data are much more important to the VNAV. Getting from
7.2 meters to 3.6 meters longitudinal accuracy does not give a lot of

extra

Look, a Gulfstream G-IV with autoland would be nicer (and safer) too but
that is not in the cards for most pilots, me included.

From a practical perspective, the bottom line is that right now there is no
avionics setup economically practical today for a single-engine piston
airplane which can fly an RNAV LNAV/VNAV approach or a WAAS GPS LPV
approach. However, toward the end of the year the Garmin CNX-80 and Garmin
400/500 series will be capable of flying these approaches.

Correct?


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