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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 |
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Only if it is installed and is IFR approved (which the Airmap 1000 isn't)
Rod wrote in message ... 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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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"Peter Clark" wrote in message ... 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 |
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wrote in message ... 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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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"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 |
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