GPS Vs COMPASS

Richard Baker said:

Use the GPS, but never totally rely on it

Unless you're on a featureless mountainside in cloud, stop to consult
the map then push on to the summit, only to find that you've managed
to drop the map somewhere en route. The GPS is then invaluable in
allowing you to backtrack exactly and find said map, so as you can
then plot a route out of the aforementioned cloud. I was quite proud
of that one.... <g>

Al
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Richard Baker said:

Use the GPS, but never totally rely on it

Unless you're on a featureless mountainside in cloud, stop to consult
the map then push on to the summit, only to find that you've managed
to drop the map somewhere en route. The GPS is then invaluable in
allowing you to backtrack exactly and find said map, so as you can
then plot a route out of the aforementioned cloud. I was quite proud
of that one.... <g>

Al
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Richard Baker said:

Use the GPS, but never totally rely on it

Unless you're on a featureless mountainside in cloud, stop to consult
the map then push on to the summit, only to find that you've managed
to drop the map somewhere en route. The GPS is then invaluable in
allowing you to backtrack exactly and find said map, so as you can
then plot a route out of the aforementioned cloud. I was quite proud
of that one.... <g>

Al
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Richard Baker said:

Use the GPS, but never totally rely on it

Unless you're on a featureless mountainside in cloud, stop to consult
the map then push on to the summit, only to find that you've managed
to drop the map somewhere en route. The GPS is then invaluable in
allowing you to backtrack exactly and find said map, so as you can
then plot a route out of the aforementioned cloud. I was quite proud
of that one.... <g>

Al
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Richard Baker said:

Use the GPS, but never totally rely on it

Unless you're on a featureless mountainside in cloud, stop to consult
the map then push on to the summit, only to find that you've managed
to drop the map somewhere en route. The GPS is then invaluable in
allowing you to backtrack exactly and find said map, so as you can
then plot a route out of the aforementioned cloud. I was quite proud
of that one.... <g>

Al
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Richard Baker said:

Use the GPS, but never totally rely on it

Unless you're on a featureless mountainside in cloud, stop to consult
the map then push on to the summit, only to find that you've managed
to drop the map somewhere en route. The GPS is then invaluable in
allowing you to backtrack exactly and find said map, so as you can
then plot a route out of the aforementioned cloud. I was quite proud
of that one.... <g>

Al
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On 26/7/05 20:49, in article
[email hidden], "Richard Baker"

Quoted message said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

I still get a little worried when I see people setting out armed with only a
GPS and not carrying a compass!

Indeed am just packing for the Pyrenees and am just searching around for my
spare compass!

--
Andy Howell
Birmingham, UK

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On 26/7/05 20:49, in article
[email hidden], "Richard Baker"

Quoted message said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

I still get a little worried when I see people setting out armed with only a
GPS and not carrying a compass!

Indeed am just packing for the Pyrenees and am just searching around for my
spare compass!

--
Andy Howell
Birmingham, UK

To mail simply put back the dots ...

On 26/7/05 20:49, in article
[email hidden], "Richard Baker"

Quoted message said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

I still get a little worried when I see people setting out armed with only a
GPS and not carrying a compass!

Indeed am just packing for the Pyrenees and am just searching around for my
spare compass!

--
Andy Howell
Birmingham, UK

To mail simply put back the dots ...

On 26/7/05 20:49, in article
[email hidden], "Richard Baker"

Quoted message said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

I still get a little worried when I see people setting out armed with only a
GPS and not carrying a compass!

Indeed am just packing for the Pyrenees and am just searching around for my
spare compass!

--
Andy Howell
Birmingham, UK

To mail simply put back the dots ...

On 26/7/05 20:49, in article
[email hidden], "Richard Baker"

Quoted message said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

I still get a little worried when I see people setting out armed with only a
GPS and not carrying a compass!

Indeed am just packing for the Pyrenees and am just searching around for my
spare compass!

--
Andy Howell
Birmingham, UK

To mail simply put back the dots ...

On 26/7/05 20:49, in article
[email hidden], "Richard Baker"

Quoted message said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

I still get a little worried when I see people setting out armed with only a
GPS and not carrying a compass!

Indeed am just packing for the Pyrenees and am just searching around for my
spare compass!

--
Andy Howell
Birmingham, UK

To mail simply put back the dots ...

Richard Baker said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

Richard

A sweeping assumption. Compasses can fail, be affected by certain
rocks and local anomalies rendering it useless. You also tend to need
a map with a compass.
I'd thought we had progressed in newsgroups from such arguements.

I have never used my compass since my first purchase of a Trimble GPS
in 1992. Today the GPS receivers available are far superior to my
original one both in performance and battery life.

At 1410 on 5 December 1945, five TBM Avengers comprising Flight 19
rose into the sky above NAS Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Turning east the
formation headed out over the Atlantic on the first leg of a routine
exercise from which the 14 men of Flight 19 were never to return.

Interestingly each of the pilots of the planes were using the 3
compasses they had on board to navigate the triangular NAVEX. It would
seem that all 14 crew became disorientated and being unable to make
use of their aircrafts compasses to locate their position had to ditch
in the sea and were lost.
Had these chaps had the cheapest functioning GPS available now they
would have had a 99.9% chance of getting back home because their
position would have been known to them relative to their base
airfield.

What you can't do with a compass is find your position in featureless
terrain or on the sea out of sight of land.
Therefore I would always rely on my GPS in preference to a compass any
day. It is easy to put new batteries in the GPS and take enough spares
with you to last the period of your trip.

I would think that in another 10 years no-one will be using the
magnetic compass and it will go the same way as the slide rule and
logarithms when the pocket calculator became available.

Norman

Richard Baker said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

Richard

A sweeping assumption. Compasses can fail, be affected by certain
rocks and local anomalies rendering it useless. You also tend to need
a map with a compass.
I'd thought we had progressed in newsgroups from such arguements.

I have never used my compass since my first purchase of a Trimble GPS
in 1992. Today the GPS receivers available are far superior to my
original one both in performance and battery life.

At 1410 on 5 December 1945, five TBM Avengers comprising Flight 19
rose into the sky above NAS Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Turning east the
formation headed out over the Atlantic on the first leg of a routine
exercise from which the 14 men of Flight 19 were never to return.

Interestingly each of the pilots of the planes were using the 3
compasses they had on board to navigate the triangular NAVEX. It would
seem that all 14 crew became disorientated and being unable to make
use of their aircrafts compasses to locate their position had to ditch
in the sea and were lost.
Had these chaps had the cheapest functioning GPS available now they
would have had a 99.9% chance of getting back home because their
position would have been known to them relative to their base
airfield.

What you can't do with a compass is find your position in featureless
terrain or on the sea out of sight of land.
Therefore I would always rely on my GPS in preference to a compass any
day. It is easy to put new batteries in the GPS and take enough spares
with you to last the period of your trip.

I would think that in another 10 years no-one will be using the
magnetic compass and it will go the same way as the slide rule and
logarithms when the pocket calculator became available.

Norman

Richard Baker said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

Richard

A sweeping assumption. Compasses can fail, be affected by certain
rocks and local anomalies rendering it useless. You also tend to need
a map with a compass.
I'd thought we had progressed in newsgroups from such arguements.

I have never used my compass since my first purchase of a Trimble GPS
in 1992. Today the GPS receivers available are far superior to my
original one both in performance and battery life.

At 1410 on 5 December 1945, five TBM Avengers comprising Flight 19
rose into the sky above NAS Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Turning east the
formation headed out over the Atlantic on the first leg of a routine
exercise from which the 14 men of Flight 19 were never to return.

Interestingly each of the pilots of the planes were using the 3
compasses they had on board to navigate the triangular NAVEX. It would
seem that all 14 crew became disorientated and being unable to make
use of their aircrafts compasses to locate their position had to ditch
in the sea and were lost.
Had these chaps had the cheapest functioning GPS available now they
would have had a 99.9% chance of getting back home because their
position would have been known to them relative to their base
airfield.

What you can't do with a compass is find your position in featureless
terrain or on the sea out of sight of land.
Therefore I would always rely on my GPS in preference to a compass any
day. It is easy to put new batteries in the GPS and take enough spares
with you to last the period of your trip.

I would think that in another 10 years no-one will be using the
magnetic compass and it will go the same way as the slide rule and
logarithms when the pocket calculator became available.

Norman

Richard Baker said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

Richard

A sweeping assumption. Compasses can fail, be affected by certain
rocks and local anomalies rendering it useless. You also tend to need
a map with a compass.
I'd thought we had progressed in newsgroups from such arguements.

I have never used my compass since my first purchase of a Trimble GPS
in 1992. Today the GPS receivers available are far superior to my
original one both in performance and battery life.

At 1410 on 5 December 1945, five TBM Avengers comprising Flight 19
rose into the sky above NAS Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Turning east the
formation headed out over the Atlantic on the first leg of a routine
exercise from which the 14 men of Flight 19 were never to return.

Interestingly each of the pilots of the planes were using the 3
compasses they had on board to navigate the triangular NAVEX. It would
seem that all 14 crew became disorientated and being unable to make
use of their aircrafts compasses to locate their position had to ditch
in the sea and were lost.
Had these chaps had the cheapest functioning GPS available now they
would have had a 99.9% chance of getting back home because their
position would have been known to them relative to their base
airfield.

What you can't do with a compass is find your position in featureless
terrain or on the sea out of sight of land.
Therefore I would always rely on my GPS in preference to a compass any
day. It is easy to put new batteries in the GPS and take enough spares
with you to last the period of your trip.

I would think that in another 10 years no-one will be using the
magnetic compass and it will go the same way as the slide rule and
logarithms when the pocket calculator became available.

Norman

Richard Baker said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

Richard

A sweeping assumption. Compasses can fail, be affected by certain
rocks and local anomalies rendering it useless. You also tend to need
a map with a compass.
I'd thought we had progressed in newsgroups from such arguements.

I have never used my compass since my first purchase of a Trimble GPS
in 1992. Today the GPS receivers available are far superior to my
original one both in performance and battery life.

At 1410 on 5 December 1945, five TBM Avengers comprising Flight 19
rose into the sky above NAS Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Turning east the
formation headed out over the Atlantic on the first leg of a routine
exercise from which the 14 men of Flight 19 were never to return.

Interestingly each of the pilots of the planes were using the 3
compasses they had on board to navigate the triangular NAVEX. It would
seem that all 14 crew became disorientated and being unable to make
use of their aircrafts compasses to locate their position had to ditch
in the sea and were lost.
Had these chaps had the cheapest functioning GPS available now they
would have had a 99.9% chance of getting back home because their
position would have been known to them relative to their base
airfield.

What you can't do with a compass is find your position in featureless
terrain or on the sea out of sight of land.
Therefore I would always rely on my GPS in preference to a compass any
day. It is easy to put new batteries in the GPS and take enough spares
with you to last the period of your trip.

I would think that in another 10 years no-one will be using the
magnetic compass and it will go the same way as the slide rule and
logarithms when the pocket calculator became available.

Norman

Richard Baker said:

I love them both, but you don't need batteries for a compass 🙂 When your
GPS fails, the compass is still there and working fine. Use the GPS, but
never totally rely on it

Richard

A sweeping assumption. Compasses can fail, be affected by certain
rocks and local anomalies rendering it useless. You also tend to need
a map with a compass.
I'd thought we had progressed in newsgroups from such arguements.

I have never used my compass since my first purchase of a Trimble GPS
in 1992. Today the GPS receivers available are far superior to my
original one both in performance and battery life.

At 1410 on 5 December 1945, five TBM Avengers comprising Flight 19
rose into the sky above NAS Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Turning east the
formation headed out over the Atlantic on the first leg of a routine
exercise from which the 14 men of Flight 19 were never to return.

Interestingly each of the pilots of the planes were using the 3
compasses they had on board to navigate the triangular NAVEX. It would
seem that all 14 crew became disorientated and being unable to make
use of their aircrafts compasses to locate their position had to ditch
in the sea and were lost.
Had these chaps had the cheapest functioning GPS available now they
would have had a 99.9% chance of getting back home because their
position would have been known to them relative to their base
airfield.

What you can't do with a compass is find your position in featureless
terrain or on the sea out of sight of land.
Therefore I would always rely on my GPS in preference to a compass any
day. It is easy to put new batteries in the GPS and take enough spares
with you to last the period of your trip.

I would think that in another 10 years no-one will be using the
magnetic compass and it will go the same way as the slide rule and
logarithms when the pocket calculator became available.

Norman

Norman <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I'd thought we had progressed in newsgroups from such arguements.

We have, but then the occasional Troll pops in. :-)

Quoted message said:

I have never used my compass since my first purchase of a Trimble GPS
in 1992. Today the GPS receivers available are far superior to my
original one both in performance and battery life.

At 1410 on 5 December 1945, five TBM Avengers comprising Flight 19
rose into the sky above NAS Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Turning east the
formation headed out over the Atlantic on the first leg of a routine
exercise from which the 14 men of Flight 19 were never to return.

Interestingly each of the pilots of the planes were using the 3
compasses they had on board to navigate the triangular NAVEX. It would
seem that all 14 crew became disorientated and being unable to make
use of their aircrafts compasses to locate their position had to ditch
in the sea and were lost.
Had these chaps had the cheapest functioning GPS available now they
would have had a 99.9% chance of getting back home because their
position would have been known to them relative to their base
airfield.

You Are Eric Von Danniken, And I Claim My Five Free Dubious Books About
Mysterious Happenings.
:-)
--
Gordon Harris