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Old February 5th 07, 11:00 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Thomas Borchert
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Default GPS instead of turn and bank

Danny,

I have been told that the heading
information from a GPS is good enough to do the function of a turn and bank
and allow emergency operations without having a visual horizon reference.


Aviation Consumer has tried flying only with reference to the instruments page
on a Garmin 296 and 496. That page emulates the standard six-pack derived from
GPS data. They say it worked. They also said the 5 Hz vs 1 Hz update rate of
the 496 improves the concept a lot.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)