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To: Gideon7

Flying without an airspeed indicator is hard but not impossible. GPS can give you ground speed. Pretty close to airspeed if you know the current wind. An iced over A indicator is no reason to die.


16 posted on 01/21/2015 11:20:12 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
GPS can give you ground speed. Pretty close to airspeed if you know the current wind...

and your track. Up at 30000 feet, the winds can be well over 100 knots if in or near an upper level jet stream.

Would be REALLY confusing if an aircraft was GPS'ing that your going backwards!

23 posted on 01/21/2015 11:27:48 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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