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yup. If you really need an alarm to tell you you’re at 150 feet 5 miles from the airport you’re doing something wrong.

Although they have similar risk profiles, I'm super comfortable on a motorcycle, probably due to experience. I have nearly four decades...

If IFR in radar contact, your GPS backup is your COM. ATC can give vectors to get you where you need to go. GPS approach backup is your...

Which means someone, somewhere, will put together a package for a tablet. Same idea as the stratus software with a couple SDRs for a...

Collins has a gps-aided micro INS out now for the homebuilt crowd now that continue to perform in the absence of GPS and connects using...

Yes, I (and Mrs Potato) put money into both. We are told to diversify our investments - certainly diversifying in tax strategy is part...

Yes but all that requires certified equipment. It’d take the FAA more than a decade to bless it. Portables for emergency backup could...

All the ones on an instrument flight plan. VFR flights can use pilotage, and can get ATC on a time-permitting basis. Same as always.

If GPS goes out and you don’t have access to a VOR then get vectors from ATC.

Exactly. I’m at a higher rate now than I was for the first third or so of my career. And don’t forget to consider RMDs. You may end...

I’m retired but I moved a chunk from my conventional IRA into a Roth last year and I’ll move more this year. It’ll only take 2 or 3...

A portable INS that ties into your tablet much like a Stratus GPS might be nice.

There’s a ton of cheap micro INS chips out there today that would only need a little integration to give you a more robust GPS/INS...

Keep in mind that will require some sort of scanning antenna for the receiver since the transmitters are non-directional.

If you really want an on-board backup besides your compass+DG, I’ll offer three words: inertial navigation system.