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Some operational C-130s still have a little sextant port for shooting a star but only a few of the old guys would still even know how it works. The GPS most of
by therockspush 11y ago
Some operational C-130s still have a little sextant port for shooting a star but only a few of the old guys would still even know how it works.
The GPS most of them use is almost as old, a $20 Garmin handheld could navigate circles around it.
- ygra 11y ago> a $20 Garmin handheld could navigate circles around it Probably not, as it will refuse to work at both the altitude and speed of an airplane ;-) EDIT: I stand corrected. Neither the speed nor the altitude will be a problem.
- votingprawn 11y ago> Probably not, as it will refuse to work at both the altitude and speed of an airplane ;-) Well sub in the garmin with one of the other low cost consumer units that work at those altitude and speeds then!
- coob 11y agoThe GPS altitude limit is 18km which is 60,000ft. Normal cruising altitude is 35,000ft. It's also trivial to obtain unrestricted GPS devices.