Well yeah, we've had lots of practice...
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And it's
And it's a VERY successful strategy!
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Its done that way to confuse westerners...
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Does yours have a choice of voices you can use? I have not tried the others
on mine
Its done that way to confuse westerners...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:54:40 -0500
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tion
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> I didn't take it that way - just saw an opportunity to complain a
My lack thereof is why I took myself out of Pensacola flight training
(forfeiting a $1 million opportunity of training). Really pissed off some
USCG folks, which is why I retired as an O3.
Hey, I saw some friends get really dead in our aircraft when I was a Petty
Officer.
I wasn't going to kill a
I have a little compass rose in my head - I, too, seem to carry a "running
fix" or "GPS."
Wilton
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Local farmers can get anywhere by looking at the sun -- or going on internal
GPS. Wife can do it (farm girl) and it drives me (a former aircraft
navigator) crazy. I think midwest folks have a compass implanted into their
brains at birth. ... I was born in coal mine territory, where the only
import
I didn't take it that way - just saw an opportunity to complain about
the random layout of roads "back East" (from the perspective of a
section line guy - IFR=I follow roads).
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Wilton Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 'Didn't mean to sound like was complaining
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> "'don't have to go around a section; 'can almost always find a
> diagonal." You don't HAVE any straight lines out there -- only old
> game trails. I don
"'don't have to go around a section; 'can almost always find a
diagonal." You don't HAVE any straight lines out there -- only old
game trails. I don't know how you find your way around. I can see that
a GPS is essential in the NE part of the woods!
I'll take our section lines anytime!
> In contras
That is what makes weekend motorcycle (and occasionally 240D) touring so
much fun. The challenge, especially on the motorcycle, is to stay on paved
roads. One can go for a dozen miles on a nice paved road, only to find that
there is a stop sign with three options (four, if you include retracing yo
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> Does yours have a choice of voices you can use? I have not tried the
others
> on mine as the standard works ok. Mine will usu
works
pretty well.
BillR
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'Used my Garmin GPS coupla hours this morning. The woman's voice reminds
Yeah, you'r right; it was Bunker Hill. Thanks; 'gonna help me sleep better
tonight.
Wilton
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rly new freeway.
Wilton
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> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Rich Thomas
> <[EMAIL P
8 crash on takeoff at AFB, IN, 'bout '67.
> Suddenly can't remember base name; was it Grissom? 'Doesn''t sound right.
>
> Wilton
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From: "Wonko the Sane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> You flew the B-58?
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Wilton Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Rich Thomas
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> You can get new voices for it. I think mine is "Jane" a Brit voice. I
> yell at her when she keeps recalculating and telling me to turn around,
> but she does not listen to me. Imagine that. My daughter and I mock
> her i
You flew the B-58?
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Wilton Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 'Used my Garmin GPS coupla hours this morning. The woman's voice reminds
> me
> of the B-58 in-flight warning system of the 60's,
>
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You can get new voices for it. I think mine is "Jane" a Brit voice. I
yell at her when she keeps recalculating and telling me to turn around,
but she does not listen to me. Imagine that. My daughter and I mock
her in those circumstances.
I can't help but think the next iteration will have v
I find the voice prompts very distracting, probably because I'm hard of
hearing. 1st thing I do on a new GPS is turn them off.
Pete
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From: "Wilton Strickland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 'Used my Garmin GPS coupla hours this morning. The woman'
'Used my Garmin GPS coupla hours this morning. The woman's voice reminds me
of the B-58 in-flight warning system of the 60's, 'cept I keep imagining
that she sounds a bit annoyed when I don't follow her instructions - it
makes her say, "Re-calculating." 'Even wanted me to make a u-turn a coupla
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