Friday, Aug 29, 2014 at 08:18
I have a Garmin and have 'Karen' as the spoken voice. She is obviously a city girl as she barely puts a foot wrong there, but in the country the
routes she gives me are sometimes jaw dropping.
For the hell of it I have followed her down some interesting country lanes to a destination on the highway on which I was travelling.
It does show that tourists blindly following a GPS could end up in someone's cow paddock if the unit was not recently updated.
Fortunately I use the GPS for a rough guide as I have a good idea of all the Australian cities, especially
Melbourne, as in the past I was a part time taxi driver there and have a very good sense of direction.
When I was flying (private pilot) I preferred paper maps and visual fixes with timing to know where I was at all times.
Where I worked in Africa the 'pilots' could not use maps so the aircraft was fitted with two separate GPS, if one was not working the aircraft was grounded until fixed. Meanwhile the expat pilots used paper maps with the GPS as a reference. Nav aids were normally inaccurate or not working.
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