Mxsmanic wrote:
Jim writes:

There is ALWAYS a backup. Look out the window.

In IMC?

In IMC ATC with radar can guide you to VFR conditions and/or
a suitable airport.

What radar? You don't need expensive radar with ADS-B, right?

Wrong.

ADS-B is just a first baby step.

No one is talking about the POSSIBILITY of eliminating radar until the
whole system is in place.

Or take a magnetic compass
bearing from your present position (which you know because you've been
following your progress on the chart) and with your airspeed and a timer
you can go to where it's safe.

I'd like to see how many pilots could successfully do this.

All of them as all of them were trained to do it and that is what the flight
planning form, which you have no clue how to fill out or use, is for.

As an aside, I remember from my training a LONG time ago that ATC can
use direction finding on your radio signal to give you your general
location. A "DF steer", I think it was called. Is that still available?

I've heard of it. I suppose if the FAA is throwing away everything else,
they'll want to throw this away, too.

Your "suppose" is useless in the real world.

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Jim Pennino

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