From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 19 2005 - 03:16:24 PDT
Unfortunatley for all the sailors offshore using GPS
for naivgation there are no roads to follow.
Rick
--- dgrev <dgrev@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Jeff
>
> > The planes I rent have all the latest GPS, weather
> nav
> > garbage, personally I have no use for it. I like
> to
> > follow the landscape, roads, terrain, turn on the
> NDB
> > maybe, even try to avoid using VOR's but in a
> pinch I
> > will, Kinda scary flying commercial these days
> knowing
> > some young buck up there has his training from
> playing
> > nintendo!!
>
> I take it that in the US you have the same
> abreviations
> as we do (our system is based on yours) so when all
> else
> fails it's back to the basics:
>
> VFR = Visually Follow Roads.
>
> IFR = I Follow Roads.
>
> It certainly does make you wonder how the world will
> survive if there is ever an EMP pulse.
> Bang will go all the ground based nav aids. I have
> no idea if the
> satellites are hardened?
>
> The way things are these days, even your fridge and
> stove have
> electronics and will be fried!
> Same with Solargisers too.
>
> Of late, there appears to be a lot of ancillary
> military
> equipment (ie, base vehicles, computers etc) that
> are
> civilian spec. They won't be much good either.
>
> > Kinda scary flying commercial these days knowing
> > some young buck up there has his training from
> playing
> > nintendo!!
>
> There has been some stuff on TV of late that the
> Europeans
> have noticed that the Nintendo generation make for
> lousy
> drivers, not better ones. You don't get 3 lives in
> the real
> world. Thus they are having to start driver training
> in schools
> with lots of crash pics to get it through to the
> kids that cars
> are not "virtual" devices and do obey neutonian laws
> of motion.
> Not that anyone is taught history anymore........
>
> Regards
> Doug
>
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