Bob Burd wrote:Do others have strong feelings about this one way or another?
Call me Old Skool, but I think using a GPS for primary nav is stoopid. Er, makes you stoopid.
Hey, you asked.
Map and compass, baby. GPS for backup if you desire.
I was a professional navigator, and I've navigated all over the North America, the Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, Indian Ocean, Africa, Europe and the Atlantic with a map & compass. We didn't even have GPS back then.
During the early days of GPS about 25 years ago, I had job in Space Command tracking the GPS satellites and running daily manual differential calculations to calibrate the satellite orbits. Basically, my daily math determined the accuracy of all GPS units in use at the time.
Funny, 25 years later... and I've never needed a GPS.
Never owned a GPS.
Never used a GPS.
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