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FMS is not that great- Long live VOR, ADF, Wet Compass and Stopwatch

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  • FMS is not that great- Long live VOR, ADF, Wet Compass and Stopwatch

    Put too much faith in technology and you may wind up in Croatia. A 67-year-old woman from Belgium learned that the hard way after she followed (faulty) directions from her GPS device. The woman only wanted to go about 90 miles from her hometown of Hainault Erquelinnes, Belgium, to pick up a friend at the [...]


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    Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

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    And, for the record, it wasn't a French gay cheep composite Tom-Tom, but a solid American heavy steel Garmin.

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    • #3
      I've been misdirected several times by my Garmin. You have to pay attention to what it's telling you and make sure you keep the maps updated.

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      • #4
        She should not be operating a motor vehicle. Note that the GPS did not provide inaccurate location information and that the moving map display matched her location. These types of faults are cauesd by the logic that attempts to generate the directions between from and to.

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