Haven't flown vfr in years, need poor man's gps suggestions please!

All in the Family was WAAAAY out there for network TV back in the day.

These days you've got nekkid Vikings and fleshing eatin' zombies on basic cable, sooo, I'd say times have changed.

Richman
 
If you haven't flown VFR in 10 years, you shouldn't be worried about getting lost, you should be worrying about how the hell you are going to fly that 172. I hope you seriously go up with an instructor for at least an hour or two as my experience working at an FBO/flight school has shown airline pilots are some of the worst GA pilots when they haven't flown a small plane in while.

I remember watching one pilot try to flare one of our warriors while still 20ft up in the air.
 
z987k said:
As a guy who flys a lot of GA, I'm just poking fun at the gadgets and trying to get people to look where the fun is. The entire reason you're even in an airplane VFR is likely to go have fun doing it. This should not resemble what most of us do for a living in any way. If you want to stare at a screen, there's big airplanes and simulators. No need to go fly.
Seriously. There's an entire world out the front window and it's pretty cool.
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Five class C, two class B, daily TFR's and a butt load of restricted airspace all within 100 miles. SoCal is really tough airspace to fly VFR without a moving map.
 
Cptnchia said:
Point is, it's not imperative to have GPS moving map. It's nice and useful to have, but if one can't operate without it, maybe one shouldn't be flying a plane.
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I got my PPL in 1973, Comm, Inst, ME in 1977/78 so I know that wasn't directed at me. I think I flew almost 100 hours before the plane I rented had a transponder.

That being said there are places I wouldn't go today VFR without a moving map.
 
fholbert said:
I got my PPL in 1973, Comm, Inst, ME in 1977/78 so I know that wasn't directed at me. I think I flew almost 100 hours before the plane I rented had a transponder.

That being said there are places I wouldn't go today VFR without a moving map.
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And that's OK. But that doesn't mean that others shouldn't go there without it either, or that it's unsafe if they do. It just means you're aware of your limits.
 
E_Dawg said:
Hi all,

I'm taking up an old 172 with no gps vfr in unfamiliar and busy airspace. I want to try to use some of this new fangled technology to help me stay as un-lost as possible.

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I'm looking at getting one of these Bad Elf GPSs. Can I connect it to my iPad to see where I am on a sectional chart? How accurate are they and do you have any app recommendations?

Thanks!!
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God help us
 
Tyler Pinkerton said:
If you haven't flown VFR in 10 years, you shouldn't be worried about getting lost, you should be worrying about how the hell you are going to fly that 172. I hope you seriously go up with an instructor for at least an hour or two as my experience working at an FBO/flight school has shown airline pilots are some of the worst GA pilots when they haven't flown a small plane in while.

I remember watching one pilot try to flare one of our warriors while still 20ft up in the air.
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Yeah I have an hour w a CFI, hopefully that's enough to learn how to fly again ;)
 
Richman said:
I mind me of a time when there was no need for GPS, and when you could blast off and not worry about TFRs or SFRAs or ADS-B requirements.

Sectionals were tool of the pilot. Not as clumsy or random as an iPad. But an elegant product, for a more civilized day in age.

Before the Dark Times. Before the Empire.

Richman
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Dude, what a great post!
 
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