Rogue IFR

In article ,
Mxsmanic wrote:
Even a handheld GPS is more than sufficient for en route navigation.

RAIM isn't about additional accuracy, that's WAAS. A receiver with
RAIM can't give you a better position fix, but it can tell you when the
the possible error in the position fix has gotten unacceptably large.

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Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

Ben Jackson writes:

RAIM isn't about additional accuracy, that's WAAS. A receiver with
RAIM can't give you a better position fix, but it can tell you when the
the possible error in the position fix has gotten unacceptably large.

How large is unacceptable? For en route navigation you don't have to be
that accurate. Older forms of navigation are considerably less
accurate, and people still use those.

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In article ,
Roger Long om wrote:
While the GPS may give them more accuracy, this was being done long
before the GPS became available.

But now they live long enough to amaze the rest of us

Seriously though, I'm sure the accuracy of the GPS and the cute little
moving map makes this much more tempting, and thus, common.

Yep, not like the old days when people knew better right The real
problem is maps of any kind, and autopilots...