stupid GPS question

"Paul Tomblin" wrote

You're VFR with a GPS. Go direct. (Draw the line on a chart to make sure
you don't cross any restricted airspace and the like.)

I seem to recall someone saying that when filing, put in the remarks
section, something like "VFR GPS onboard."

Helpful?
--
Jim in NC

In a previous article, "Morgans" said:
"Paul Tomblin" wrote
You're VFR with a GPS. Go direct. (Draw the line on a chart to make sure
you don't cross any restricted airspace and the like.)

I seem to recall someone saying that when filing, put in the remarks
section, something like "VFR GPS onboard."

Helpful?

If you're vfr, nobody cares how you navigate.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
please excuse my typing, but my whole left arm is in a cast. and i don't
mean _the king and i_.

Paul Tomblin wrote:

If you're vfr, nobody cares how you navigate.

Back before my instrument rating, I once had a controller at my home
class C airport ask me if I could navigate to a nearby VOR. I answered
yes and was instructed to fly to the VOR for sequencing into the airport.

Now technically she probably didn't care how I got there, but the fact that
I could made her job just a little easier during that series of arrivals.

--
Peter


















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"Paul Tomblin" wrote

If you're vfr, nobody cares how you navigate.

So you only use the "VFR GPS onboard", if you want to file direct on a IFR
flight plan?
--
Jim in NC

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:11:33 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:

So you only use the "VFR GPS onboard", if you want to file direct on a IFR
flight plan?

Well, I don't use it at all!


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Jeez Dan... In a Cub you can't fly direct for more than 30 seconds
anyway... The vortex off a butterfly's wings will alter your 'direct'
route...

denny

Morgans wrote:
"Paul Tomblin" wrote


If you're vfr, nobody cares how you navigate.


So you only use the "VFR GPS onboard", if you want to file direct on a IFR
flight plan?

Technically you don't file "direct" if you can't legally file /G. You
can file direct between navaids. That being said, I have filed direct
(even though I am /U) and got the clearance. Often, I ask for direct
while enroute. Several times I have been asked by ATC if I want direct
while enroute. My Garmin 196 is well more than capable of allowing me
to do that (and everybody else knows it too).