They are already storing the length, bearing, and position of every leg of
every approach in the world, what's a couple more digits/leg. Even if it's
just listed on the screen as a backup. Seems like they missed a valuable
feature here costing almost nothing.
Sure has that "Agency" smell doesn't it?

Al G


"Dave Butler" wrote in message
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Al wrote:
Thanks Dave,


What do you mean "advertises 3D nav"?


I guess I was refering to the status page (showing sattelites), where it
says "3D Nav".

Ha, yes, I've seen that, but I forgot about it when responding to your
message. I don't know, my best guess is that they intend to say that
sufficient satellite signals are available to determine the position in 3
dimensions. Indeed it is possible to display the box's notion of altitude
but AFAIK that's not usable for anything except as an interesting number
to know and tell about. You can't use that number for navigation. Only
TSO146 navigators have altitude outputs that have any legal meaning.