Finally joined a flying club near DFW
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milleR
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To my understanding, and I’m open for correction, obtaining this information through the app meets all your required preflight requirements and you then have it all available digitally in one small, neat package. Add a Stratus (or equivalent) and it will update inflight.
bLizZuE
Calling for engine starts en français
I guess I just meant, looking all this up “at my fingertips” in-flight rather than before.
I’m not anti technology. I use an iPad at work and I love it. It’s just not worth it for a 172 with g1000. I am honestly surprised at the froth driven up over this topic.
I’m not anti technology. I use an iPad at work and I love it. It’s just not worth it for a 172 with g1000. I am honestly surprised at the froth driven up over this topic.
milleR
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I don’t think I’m worked up, just trying to understand the thought process behind such an adamant stance that paper charts in 2019 are somehow preferable to a free digital product you can use on your smartphone.
I guess I get it if we’re talking just bopping along /A VFR in the country at 500’ using a chart for the sake of being “old school”. But if you’re flying IFR or even VFR in congested airspace I think there’s a legitimate safety argument for having newer tech on board and knowing how to use it. I haven’t flown a G1000 in a decade, so maybe that checks all the boxes and a paper sectional is just a good backup. But the notion of relying on physical publications for situational awareness in busy airspace today is something I’m finding hard to grasp.
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knot4u
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I enjoy using paper. Sectionals are worthy of being framed as art IMHO (if you can get rid of the creases). I understand using an EFB will be more efficient and probably safer, but I get a certain satisfaction from following my progress on an actual paper map, maybe it's because it's not likely to have a glitch unless it gets sucked out of the window, or maybe I have a mild case of Aspergers. Either way if I have and use both why would anyone be offended?
bLizZuE
Calling for engine starts en français
Did you learn to fly with paper charts?
milleR
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Yes. And if you’d told me at that time that one day I could have a handheld device with all of that information available at my fingertips without buying new ones every 56 days to be legal I’d have called you crazy. I’m amazed to this day how far we’ve come in the last 20 years.
milleR
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Ok, I’m projecting and need to shut up. My world isn’t your world when it comes to GA. Do what makes you happy, you’re a professional and know what is and isn’t safe. (no sarcasm, complete sincerity
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
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There’s a lot of things I did when I learned to fly that aren’t as safe as what we have available today. I mean, it’s been 25 years. I certainly don’t want to be that dinosaur shooting the NDB with paper charts while hand flying just because that’s how I learned to do it two decades ago. Technological advances have made things safer since then.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Not safe. Safer.
knot4u
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What year was your airplane built?
bLizZuE
Calling for engine starts en français
Did you see it’s a g1000 airplane?
bLizZuE
Calling for engine starts en français
Feel free to kick the horse while you’re here.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Long time ago. Not equipped even close to how it was at the time, though.
knot4u
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So you've installed turbine engines? Surely they must be easier and safer to operate, rather than that old piston tech from the turn of the last century.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Funny you ask. I’ve actually got the 421 up or sale so I can replace it with something turbine.