Subject: Flight Lessons
From: "Paul J. Adam"
Date: 8/7/03 10:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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I agree with you. It is amazing that every post in this NG on GPS has been
negative; talking about difficulty of use, failures, inacuracies and time
consuming operations.and also making it seem as though every one who used
GPS
was untrained and just generally incompetant.

The problem with GPS is that it works too well while it works. Because
it's quick and easy to program and follow, less care often goes into
checking and planning the route, and often less care gets taken in
double-checking that the real world conforms to what the GPS says.

That is not he fault of the GPS.

the GPS acts up or the information it provides isn't used wisely.

That goes for anything and everything. Not just GPS.

I guess if we had GPS in WW II
we would have lost the war.

With GPS you wouldn't need navigators, the lead pilot just follows the
little arrow and everyone else formates on him. Big saving in manpower,
training, and it frees up some weight per plane for more fuel or armour
(or lets the B-26 be a little lighter)

Not really. In the B-26 the bombardier and the navigater was they same guy

..

Of course, if the GPS co-ordinates are wrongly calculated, wrongly
entered, or the GPS battery fails midflight, that's a very lost
formation... with no navigators to rescue them.

If you keep the trained navigators and their equipment "just in case",
what benefit is GPS providing?


--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam








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