I should know this.. 172S

My answer: depends on what your training for. Think the FSDO won't ask questions like "how high are the GPS satellites", "Do the GPS satellites orbit around the earth or stay in position" or a ton of other purely technical engineering type questions on GPS, you'd be wrong. We just had a CFII applicant fail at the FSDO for that stuff. Granted it was "that guy" at the Alliance FSDO (JH, KLB, JDE, you guys know who I'm talking about).

It really depends on what your training for and who your training when it comes down to the details. None of that GPS stuff has anything to do with flying the airplane, but the guy wanted her to know it.
 
kellwolf said:
My answer: depends on what your training for. Think the FSDO won't ask questions like "how high are the GPS satellites", "Do the GPS satellites orbit around the earth or stay in position" or a ton of other purely technical engineering type questions on GPS, you'd be wrong. We just had a CFII applicant fail at the FSDO for that stuff. Granted it was "that guy" at the Alliance FSDO (JH, KLB, JDE, you guys know who I'm talking about).

It really depends on what your training for and who your training when it comes down to the details. None of that GPS stuff has anything to do with flying the airplane, but the guy wanted her to know it.
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But does knowing that stuff make you a better instructor? I mean... REALLY? Does "12,600 miles" make your instrument student better at keeping up his/her SA?

Asking questions like that is obscene, IMO.
 
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