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Is there any way to have the Garmin 430/530 put its current display accuracy
on the primary display as an ongoing statistic, based on the number of satellites in view? How, in general, do the Garmin units notify you of situations where GPS accuracy has been compromised to a level that makes it unsafe to use the Garmin for a GPS approach? I got an interesting lesson in GPS recently while traveling with a handheld GPS as the passenger in a plane. The GPS showed us landing about two miles east of the airport. I figured out only later that the position of the antenna was such that many satellites were blocked, so the accuracy of the GPS signal was greatly diminished. The particular software I was using didn't display its current accuracy on the primary display. Based on that event, I realize I cannot just trust a GPS display without first understanding the current accuracy of the signal. What would be really nice is if the primary display would show vertical and horizontal accuracy as two separate numbers, based on some high confidence interval (99.99+%). Knowing that the current display reading is accurate to 10 ft vertical and 15 ft horizontal, for example, might make you a lot more comfortable in following a GPS approach than a display where the 99.99% confidence interval is 2000 ft vertical/horizontal (i.e., GPS reliability is completely compromised by virtue of blocked satellites, bad GPS antenna, etc). -- Will |
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