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Alpha Propellerhead wrote:

In fact, I did a flight review for a pilot recently who had a GPS and
he spent so much head-down time in the cockpit with it that he'd lose
his situational awareness. Everytime he looked down, he'd lose 200
feet but he didn't look at his altimeter enough to realize how much
altitude he was losing. He might be banking 20 degrees, approaching
the yellow arc and losing 300 fpm or climbing up to 1000' AGL pattern
altitude after a cross country, but, dammit, he stayed RIGHT ON that
pink line.

Yikes. I hope you got him straightened out. Assuming you did, how did he
react to the idea that this behavior might not be entirely desirable?

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Mike Ash
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