GPS to fail, better get out those paper maps this weekend

Chuckle

Hey troppo this thread I have to watch.

Paper map fan.

You can both calm down now

Wow,

Just think about it!

Jet Fighter Aces travelling at the sound of speed with a paper map on their knee.

Hope the navy issues submarine commanders with waterproof laminated maps.



Nah! Not going to happen - just another myth.

Therre will be all the satellites you need.


Ian

USAF will have it's bum suitable kicked and will launch satellites post haste. Too many of their own systems rely on them to let the system fail.
Anyway, will be a few years before anything bad would happen.

Who cares?

It says on the box (that your gps comes in) and it's operating literature, that GPS should ONLY EVER be used as a BACKUP.

It should ONLY conform what you already know.

Quite simple GPS should NEVER be your soul source of navigation.

If your using it that way and can't get bye without then you need to take a good look at yourselves as drivers / navigators.

Cheers

When I was young man doing mapping and survey work with the RAAF in very remote areas to our north we were supplied with a new and wonderful system for finding locations by satellite.

it required 3 satellites to get a fix on our location, I think there were a total 9 satellites up at the time to cover the whole world.

Sometimes we would have to wait several hours to get a good fix on our location.

Amazing how quickly times change.

PS I saw my first digital camera in 1980 still working with the RAAF.

It belonged to the US army and we had to sign the official secrets act to get to play with it.

It was a bit more advanced than this one:

http://www.retrothing.com/2008/05/kodaks-first-di.html

During the first Gulf War (in the 90's) the Yanks use to turn them off to the normal public. Was great cruising along in the middle of the night on a fast fly bridge cruiser and all of a sudden the GPS would go down. It was a good idea to mark your position on the chart more frequently and of course use normal navigating equipment like we were taught to.