CFI's who use a transceiver or handheld GPS?

What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?


What do you own?

"BoDEAN" wrote in message
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What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?


What do you own?


I never fly myself or with a student without my Garmin 295.


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Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com

What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?


What do you own?

Used to carry a King KX-99 (I think that was it) with me, but it craped out on
me about 10 years ago..
I don't have a GPS, but am eyeballing a Garmin 195 or 295 just for the heck of
it.
Right now the airplane I fly is equipped with a King KLN-89B.


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?

I'm not an instructor, but I remember seeing one of the lads at
Hampton NH sitting on a lawn chair by the side of the runway with his
handheld. Since the Cubs don't have radios, and since primary training
is generally done in the Cubs, I reckon he must have been giving some
kind of checkoff training to somebody in a Cessna.

The training here is very traditional, but it may include GPS by now.
(My own instructor is half-owner of a Cub, and when he flies alone he
doesn't carry a radio. "It's part of the experience," he says." I do,
ever since I had a close encounter with a twin flying straight in to
20.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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I don't use either while instructing, but I use my ICOM A-22 when my
students solo so I can listen in.
When flying alone I carry my ICOM and my Garmin 295.


"BoDEAN" wrote in message
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What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?


What do you own?

"BoDEAN" wrote in message
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What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?


What do you own?


I own an Icom A-22 and a Garmin 295. I rarely carry either one of these on
training flights.

Most of the time I am within 20 miles of the airport. I am hardly ever more
than five miles from any airport or emergency landing strip. I have used a
cellular phone several times to communicate with the office or to talk to
FSS.

The only time I would really want the GPS with me is when there is an
unexpected cloud cover over the practice area so that I cannot use pilotage
to stay clear of airspace. Even then I can navigate just fine with the
regular radios and I avoid practicing over a layer of clouds anyway. I want
to be able to see my emergency landing areas on the ground while my students
do their stalls and steep turns and such.

On long cross countries (more than 100 miles) I will carry the backups.

BoDEAN wrote
What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?

When doing IFR instruction in a plane without proper electrical system
redundancy (which is most light piston aircraft) I consider a battery
powered GPS a no-go item. Lose the master contactor, and the plane
goes dark. If you can't see the ground, you've just bought yourself a
major emergency. On the other hand, with a handheld GPS and good
batteries, you're still OK to shoot a non-precision approach.

I don't bother with a handheld comm. Unless it has an external
antenna, the range is very limited, and in any case there are
procedures for lost comm.

Of course VFR, I don't both with comm or GPS.

Michael

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What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?


What do you own?


I use a Garmin 12. It is a very limited hikers GPS, but it serves me well.I
have all the airports, fixes and navaids within 200miles of my home airport
programmed into it. I use it on xc flights mainly to create a track plot of
the flight, overlay on a sectional and review it with the student.

I don't own a transceiver. I have an aviation scanner, but I have rarely
used it.

What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?
What do you own?

Well, I always carry my trusty KX-99 and my
Trimble Flight Mate Pro whether I'm instructing
or solo. I saw a KX-100, Comm-GPS combo
go for 2 C notes on Ebay. I wish that I had the
moola.

Oh, BTW, I don't know how you will come up
with any percentages.

Skyking

"Skyking" wrote in message ...
Well, I always carry my trusty KX-99 and my
Trimble Flight Mate Pro whether I'm instructing
or solo.

That's the same combination I carried about 12 years ago. I've
since upgraded the GPS to a 195, but the KX-99 is still in my
flightbag. That radio is bulletproof. I'd probably still be using
the Trimble, but it was stolen.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)