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Pat,
Glad you survived it.
Back in the mid-fifties the Navy had me nav-piloting (mostly nav) P2Vs down near
the water, out of radar-range of land for a half-day. Good practice doing
DR nav, reading wind drift on wave-tops, and holding a heading within a
half-degree with the magnesyn compass. Would rather have been way
up, where you were. Well, maybe not -- where you were. Formosa Straits
were bad enough. Terrence O'Neill
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Subject: [LML] Hmmm
Lost in the local area? I suppose we were all
there sometime, but there is no question that GPS has deprived many new pilots
of the basic skills still needed. I remember in my EARLY days of flying
the U-2, back in the mid '50's, we had a radio compass and a sextant and a
4000 mile range. Now there is a real opportunity to get lost trying to
hone your DR and pilotage skills in a world wide environment Pat
Halloran
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