I must be living good. The last time I had to enter degrees and
anything was to put my home (private) airport into my Garmin 300XL
because it wasn't in the DB (and I wanted to ensure precision -
otherwise I could have just hit the button when sitting in the middle of
the runway). I've been using it for 6 years and have never entered
another one.

Before that the only time I had to enter them was into 1st generation
panel mount GPS glide computers that had no database. You would enter
20 to 30 waypoints for each contest site. Now that sucked, but GPS was
such magic, it sucked good!

Doug wrote:
GPS is great. It's revolutionized small plane navigation. But one thing
that bugs me is that there are two or even possibly three ways of
entering a GPS waypoint.
DD MM SS Degrees minutes seconds which is how we were taught in
school
DD MM.XX Degrees minutes and 10ths and 100ths of minutes
DD.XXXX Some genius has Degrees and decimals of degrees.

I think the first way DD MM SS is the best but I could live with the
second way. But whatever we do, CAN WE GET EVERYONE TO AGREE ON ONE
METHOD!!! If it hasn't already caused an accident I bet it will. Also
search and rescue position reporting etc foulups are easily caused by
this.