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IFR use of handheld GPS
In navigator training back when we actually used a sextant, whenever
our mission called for legs using celestial navigation ATC would give us a celnav clearance. This allowed us much more airspace than a "direct" clearance as celestial nav was less precise than other methods of navigation. On missions which required students to use only ded reckoning, the pilot would also ask ATC for a celnav clearance in order to have the freedom to manuever (i.e. wander) off the direct line to the next turnpoint. Thus, when ATC sends you direct to a point, they expect you to be pretty darn close to staying on the direct course to that point. If you decide that your going to use a watch and compass (dr) or pull out a sextant and you wander significantly off that straight line and stray into restricted airspace--guess who's going to get violated? |
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