Curtis L. Olson writes: > Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes > of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough > satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of > the aircaft. I was pretty amazed that it actually worked when I > tried it on my last flight. Next time I'll have to find a laptop > and plug it into the serial port and watch where I am with > "Atlas". :-)
I flew commercially from Ottawa to Toronto/Buttonville last November in a Pilatus PC-12. I was in the front row, and I was following the IFR flight plan I'd memorized from the panel GPS display before the cockpit curtain was closed. My handheld Magellan 315 GPS with a customized aviation database (from DAFIF) is very small (about the size of a cell phone), and I didn't have it out until we were airbourne. The pilot must have noticed, however, because in the middle of the flight he opened the curtain, turned back, and asked me if I could get him a groundspeed reading (perhaps he wanted to confirm the display on his panel-mounted GPS). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
