http://www.invensense.com/news/112806.html

The short take on this: MEMS or micromechanical technology, basically
integrated circuit technology used to make microscopic mechanical
features, having been used to make $1 accelerometers, is now being
used to make $1 gyroscopes, with a full internal navigation unit
on a chip in the near future.

What it means is that your cell phone or WII game controller will
know exactly where it is in space, and what orientation, for less
than $10 total manufacturing costs.

Let me say this simply. The fact that aircraft avionics, the application
for which gyros were *invented*, will shortly know *less* about the
position of the aircraft, with *less* reliability and *less* accuracy,
than the cell phone under your butt whilst flying along,

IS A *CRIME*.

The FAA should be *ASHAMED* at how much they have managed to slow down
and stop the adoption of modern technology in light airplanes.

What major innovation have the feds offered us to break out of this
logjam? They have proposed that we voluntarily *DECERTIFY* our aircraft,
as in take our perfectly TSO'ed aircraft and classify them as
experimental.

Scott Moore