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Certified for IFR
RE: Certified for IFR
RE: Certified for IFR
Pat Horne; www.churchoflivingfaith.com
RE: Certified for IFR
?? Plenty. How much mapwork and NDB/VOR work have you done? Supplements are always welcome.
Even if not certified as a primary Nav aid, it's extremely useful if for nothing other than an aid to maintaining situational awareness.
Given a minimal but IFR certified panel, a lot can be done to lighten the workload. I used to use an old Sharp Wizard "PDA" with a Flight computer on it, to give full GPS/Loran type waypoint to waypoint navigation using any combination of NDB, VOR, DME fixes. Certified IFR flights are frequently still done (especially in the lower budget general aviation category) with some pretty crude and rudimentary panels. Yet time after time, accident reports state "loss of situational awareness, resulting into controlled flight into terain". Meaning-lost sense of direction, misread the information staring him in the face, believing it still supported where he *thought* he was headed - and flew smack into a mountain or tower. It's all too easy to ignore or misread the obvious in the stress of the ****pit when the weather's bad, something out of the ordinary has happened, or the like to jump the stress level up. The more clear/simple info you have (multiple sources of agreeing info), the easier it is to keep everything less confusing.
It's hard to explain until you've spent time doing it, but it's a whole different thing, hurtling at high speed with no visual queues (or worse, partial/vague/distorted, visual queues). Maybe submariners also know this well... It's something to fly your trips with only relentless cross-checking of rudimentary analog instruments that haven't changed much in 50 years.
Something like this Garmin, means you still fly the trip with your certified gear, but it's a no brainer to keep a sense of your environment and where you're headed, with help from the GPS/Garmin. No different than the portable GPS's we've been using for the past decade or so, just that pruducts like this Garmin is even more help.
Not being certified just means you can't put the map away, and ignore/shut off the certified instruments.
Craig Bowers
(with a Commercial pilots license in his jeans)
RE: Certified for IFR
And the Garmin 3600a is actually even a better (and more powerful) navigation tool than all but the most recent built in panel-mount GPS systems. Systems that cost $10k - $20k.
A handheld GPS will never be certified by the FAA to fly in instrument conditions - the airplane as a whole (including the built in avionics only) must be certified for that. But a handheld used in conjunction to built in IFR instruments can greatly enhance safety.
I know I would love one of these with me the next time I go flying.
- chris dunphy / Pilot & PalmSource Employee
RE: Certified for IFR
I don't need it, Gek. YOU are the one who is always lost.
Why not PPC-see what I said
all of you know that our friends at Garmin released a PPC based version of their navigator system a few weeks ago. However, with them basing this all-new device on PalmOS instead of PPC, we cearly see that the PalmOS is superior!
Thats my 2 cents
Tam Hanna
Find out more about the Palm OS in my blog:
http://tamspalm.blogspot.com
RE: Why not PPC-see what I said
Pat Horne; www.churchoflivingfaith.com
More interactive choices!
Well, based on theses interactive thoughts combined with advanced interactive thoughts this will no longer be an issue.
Welcome to the New World of customer service where the we-customer is again the purpose for all.
This is a nice choice too.
E-T
e-tellurian
completing the e-com circle with a people driven we-com solution
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Nice for pilots!
It looks like an excellent application!