Flight plan and aircraft equipment

When you file a flight plan or request flight following, and you have to
indicate how the aircraft is equiped I usually say /u because the plane
does not have a GPS unit. Now that I have the airmap 1000 and will be
flying with that, when contacting flight service can I say /g, or is that
only if the GPS is a fixed piece of equipment in the airplane?

--
Mike Flyin'8
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
http://flying.4alexanders.com

Only if it is installed and is IFR approved (which the Airmap 1000 isn't)

Rod

wrote in message
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When you file a flight plan or request flight following, and you have to
indicate how the aircraft is equiped I usually say /u because the plane
does not have a GPS unit. Now that I have the airmap 1000 and will be
flying with that, when contacting flight service can I say /g, or is that
only if the GPS is a fixed piece of equipment in the airplane?

--
Mike Flyin'8
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
http://flying.4alexanders.com

Cool. Thanks for the quick response! I noticed the section of the AIM
says /G must have "En Route and Terminal Capabilities"

What is that? I looked online and can not find what that means...


"Rod Madsen" wrote:
Only if it is installed and is IFR approved (which the Airmap 1000 isn't)

Rod


--
Mike Flyin'8
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
http://flying.4alexanders.com

On 24 Mar 2005 18:56:40 GMT, wrote:

Cool. Thanks for the quick response! I noticed the section of the AIM
says /G must have "En Route and Terminal Capabilities"

What is that? I looked online and can not find what that means...

I believe it refers to the unit auto-changing the sensitivity on the
CDI (5NM - .3NM) when transitioning to (30NM radius of the
destination airport?) the terminal area and getting set up for an
approach.

"Peter Clark" wrote in message
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On 24 Mar 2005 18:56:40 GMT, wrote:

Cool. Thanks for the quick response! I noticed the section of the AIM
says /G must have "En Route and Terminal Capabilities"

What is that? I looked online and can not find what that means...

I believe it refers to the unit auto-changing the sensitivity on the
CDI (5NM - .3NM) when transitioning to (30NM radius of the
destination airport?) the terminal area and getting set up for an
approach.

It also means that it has to be approved for IFR flight. Also read AC 90-94.

BT

wrote in message
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When you file a flight plan or request flight following, and you have to
indicate how the aircraft is equiped I usually say /u because the plane
does not have a GPS unit. Now that I have the airmap 1000 and will be
flying with that, when contacting flight service can I say /g, or is that
only if the GPS is a fixed piece of equipment in the airplane?


For the purposes of a VFR flight plan or flight following, nobody cares if
it's fixed/portable or approved/unapproved.

For the purposes of a VFR flight plan or flight following, nobody cares
if it's fixed/portable or approved/unapproved.

So am I allowed to say /G when flying VFR when using the AM1000? I know
the reason for telling them is so they know you can accept direct routing.
For this scenario the AM1000 would work just fine, but in the AIM it says
something about "En Route and Terminal Capabilities" next to the /G
description.

--
Mike Flyin'8
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA
http://flying.4alexanders.com

wrote:


So am I allowed to say /G when flying VFR when using the AM1000?

Yes.


I know
the reason for telling them is so they know you can accept direct routing.

You're VFR, you won't be routed anywhere.


For this scenario the AM1000 would work just fine, but in the AIM it says
something about "En Route and Terminal Capabilities" next to the /G
description.

They are talking about IFR ops.

In article , Newps
wrote:

So am I allowed to say /G when flying VFR when using the AM1000?

Yes.

really? It's ok to lie about the aircraft equipment? Or is that just
a quick way to get across the point that you have a VFR GPS without
having to tie up the frequency?

--
Bob Noel
looking for a sig the lawyers will like

"Newps" wrote in message
wrote:
So am I allowed to say /G when flying VFR when using the AM1000?

Yes.

No.

I know
the reason for telling them is so they know you can accept direct
routing.

You're VFR, you won't be routed anywhere.

Unless you're in controlled airspace.

Do you just make this stuff up as you go along?

moo