Denny,
You're fighting a losing battle my friend. I was also taught the
critical basic instruments as you've pointed out, however a great many
of today's pilots place tremendous faith in their electronics. Dead
reckoning seems to be a lot art, which may be a good thing considering
the airspace we live in today.

I'm with you on the criticality of the compass, and I also seem
to remember that it used to be part of the minimum equipment list but
the DG wasn't. That used to be a question asked on the CFII oral years
ago.

But times have changed so we have to understand the new
environments.

-----Original Message-----
From: Denny ]
Posted At: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:34 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.owning
Conversation: Dead DG
Subject: Dead DG

Well, let me take you into IMC and fail everything but your altimeter,
speedo, T&B and compass and I'll have you kissing that compass when
you
are back down...
A DG is nice but it's nothing that will kill you if it goes bad in
hard
IMC...




denny