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No GPS based navigator deals in Heading. They only do Track. They've no clue as to where your nose is pointing (and don't care ;-). Some EFIS systems have electronic compass (magnetometer) input as well as their GPS track data. In practice, though, the most useful thing a magnetometer does is to enable the display of real time wind-velocity.

Generative AI?

No jest. No contest.

Mogas is a useful term to distinguish it from Avgas in an aviation context.

And getting oil up to temp can take an eternity. ;- )

True ... and right up there among its talents is the ability to handle OUT as well as IN. Plus its tight integration with popular local EFBs for IN display.

The full movie is now out on YT's Cult Cinema Classics channel. It pays more respect to aeronautical realities (both physics and politics) than the average aviation movie does. And there's a nice part in it for our own 'Bud' Tingwell, mid career. "At the dawn of jet-powered commercial aviation, an unexplained crash is hastily blamed on pilot error, disgraced Captain Gort must infiltrate the airline's inner circle to expose a lethal design flaw. With corporate forces silencing whistleblowers and another flight scheduled on the same doomed aircraft, he races to ground the plane before history repeats mid-air."

Yeah, Col, I think it's six of one and half-dozen of the other in that case. But anyway, to Moneybox's original point, it is now a lot easier to compare VNC and SAT map views while you plan a flight. I had a look at your preferred path down to the coast - going straight over the escarpment south-east of Braidwood towards Bateman's Bay before tracking south. Well the sat-view gives a very different impression than the VNC. And we know there's a lot of rugged country around those Budawangs. On the other hand, only about 7NM after leaving the safety to the tablelands - as the satellite view shows (when you pinch in) - there's a fairly landable flat area called Currowang Creek. And beyond that it's not far to the Nelligen Valley, before you hit the beaches. [Pics#1-3]. These are insights we won't get from our aviation maps. Likewise, the alternate route down the Araluen and Deau valleys - a bit to the south. [Pics#4-7] When you zoom in on sat-view you get to see that there are actually quite a few places enroute to put down in a pinch. It's not as rugged or remote as it first appears. As always, a lot depends on the weather and the more height you can get the more options you have. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Fair enough, but as Thruster posted above, MOS 26.64 seems to be the only 'regulation' that applies to us (and most would see it as just common sense). That being said, with new tech 'remote' ain't what it used to be. (Though flights can and do disappear). Remote area survival equipment (MOS 26.64) An aircraft that is flying over a remote area is required to carry appropriate survival equipment for sustaining life for the area that is being overflown.

Oh, I understood but I'd say the added detail is not much more persuasive. But let it pass. It ain't important. We're all in furious agreement that having enough water and the means to yell for help is a bloody good idea (like motherhood and apple meat pie).

'There's always one' indeed, but your lurid anecdotes, alone, do not convincing arguments make; nor even seem to try. BTW, for the price of renting $10,000 worth of HF gear, you could treat yourself to a new telephone. It's portable, provides SOS sat-comms from anywhere and will even run an EFB app to keep you in a safe place to start with.

Yeah, in OzRunways/iOS (etc. ?) you can switch from regular aviation charts to Apple sat maps whenever you want an idea of the actual terrain below. Although you need an internet connection for that. CLICK PICS FOR FULL SIZE:

Lucky that the ERSA, charts and docs weigh-in at zero as electrons.

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