B wrote:

Mike Adams wrote:


Given that you have to fly the airway, it's much easier to call it up
out of the database and have the GPS automatically insert all the
course changes and intersections. Without the database, you're forced
to get out the chart and find all the significant waypoints where a
course change occurs, and put them in manually, or else fly the VOR
raw data as you said. Either one is a lot of work by comparison.

Mike

Anyone who flies IFR without the chart out isn't in complete command
of the flight in any case

I don't disagree, but it's still easier to get the route into the box if the airways are in the database, rather
than just the navaids and intersections as waypoints.

Mike