"Charles Talleyrand" wrote:
wrote:

GPS navigation is wonderful, but we are just now beginning to realize
the many downsides of GPS such as tunnel vision, degraded situational
awareness, increased airspace incursions, more heads-down flying,
more buttons and more confusion.

Hmmm. In the civilian recreational pilot world GPS is pretty much seen
as the best thing to hit navigation since the invention of bread.

Exactly right. And therein lies the crux of the problem (e.g: GPS is
pretty much seen as the ONLY thing to hit navigation since the
invention of bread).

I would believe there are fewer airspace incursions since there is
more awareness of exactly where you are and why the airspace
boundries are.

You're obviously not a flight instructor, huh?

"Enhanced situational awareness" is a selling point of pretty much every
avation GPS sold.

Yep, definitely not a flight instructor.

Look at it this way, Charles. If you ever do become an instructor do
us all a big favor and *don't* teach your ab initio students how to
use a GPS until they learn pilotage and dead reckoning first.

Are you a pilot?

Ya. Are you a pirate?

Do your pilot friends also think these things about GPS?

Yo ho yo ho shiver me timbers!

-Mike (newbies, ya' just gotta' love 'em) Marron