Article 49797 of rec.aviation.piloting: Path: matra.meer.net!news1.best.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: Gorman Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting Subject: Re: ATPs I have a Q for You about my GPS! Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 20:02:10 -0400 Organization: Gormair Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3374FE71.6DF7@ix.netcom.com> References: <3374CAC9.419B@highway1.com> <5l2f4q$2tv$1@news.zoomnet.net> <3374D953.75D9@DELETE_THIS.usa.net> <5l2qqa$8su$1@news.zoomnet.net> Reply-To: gorman1@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: pon-mi1-12.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Sat May 10 7:02:42 PM CDT 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Xref: matra.meer.net rec.aviation.piloting:49797 I don't know nothing 'bout no law but I do know that I've asked six different Northwest Captains if they would mind if I used my GPS and everyone said yes. In four cases, they exhibited a lot more interest than I'd have thought. One asked me to give him a fix about half way through our flight so he could compare with his instruments (he was astonished at the accuracy, except for TAS which I'd had to guess at, not knowing OAT and IAS). Another time, the First Officer came back with his enroute charts and talked with me for several minutes. Main problem I had was that it was difficult to maintain a good fix on enough satellites since the antenna was stuck to a window on the side of the plane. I would certainly never use a GPS without clearing it with the flight deck.