I really appreciated GPS this weekend. The flight out to the Open House/Airshow at Solberg was in horrid haze and the flight back was scud-running (just 12 minutes each way).
Ground-mapping GPS is really nice in really yucky, soupy VFR conditions which are legal, but no fun at all because you have to squint to see that 1-3 miles out in the haze. The biggest asset is that it tells you, relative to your ground track, where to look for that obscure East Coast runway. Sweltering in the 95-degree heat at 95-percent humidity with the firewall heating up and unable to climb above 1500 feet due to the afternoon overcast, not to mention unable to see crap above 2000 feet due to the morning haze, I could have kissed that Airmap 300. I've flown with Loran (non-mapping). The improvement of mapping GPS over that is as great as the improvement that Loran was over single VOR navigation. Greg At 11:19 AM 5/7/00 -0700, Charlie Reno wrote: >Even with the scrambling of the past, it was a great asset to VFR >navigation. With VOR, it was easy to miss an airport that may have been 12 >minutes after passage with a turn to the final heading involved but finding >the airport was very easy with the GPS unit. __________________________________________________________________________ ______ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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