David Megginson wrote: > > 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).
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to ask an "ordinary" passenger for his ground speed... What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he doesn't know how reliable his data is? CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
