"Neil Gould" wrote:

Recently, Ron Lee posted:

"Neil Gould" wrote:

So, haven't you any idea about how we arrive at the notion that for
aviators WAAS is indeed "part of GPS", or is there some value to
your pedantry that we are missing? You have yet to answer my earlier
question: what piece of equipment in the cockpit involves WAAS but
not a GPS?

Because it is irrelevant. WAAS needs a GPS receiver to work but that
does not make WAAS a part of the DoD operated GPS system.

As I've mentioned several times now, while it may be a true statement, who
cares what the DoD operated GPS system was, and how does that change
anything with regards to our use of GPS today?

And I am a pilot who uses GPS for navigation and fully understand
which system does what.

Which only makes it more puzzling that you want to go on about this.

Neil

Neil, what is amazing is that you won't differentiate between
different systems and use of those where they are almost
complementary. Actually, WAAS is basically useless without GPS. It
augments GPS much as EGNOS does in Europe yet do you call EGNOS part
of GPS?

Using the logic of several on this board, NDGPS and CORS are also part
of the DoD operated GPS.

Ron Lee