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Originally Posted by WVOtoGO
Understood.
I didn’t say they wouldn’t be effected.
I just can’t see it leaving someone in a boat lost at sea, or even into the rocks. Lest they use it for very tight harbor Nav, strict channel maneuvers or critical passage work.
Now the CAT-3 Airport and/or precision flight approaches systems and these Street Nav systems may be a whole ’nuther can of worms. We have recieved various FAA and Garmin GNS update information for some time now. It is an issue there, for sure.
Never had a street unit. Don't know.
Hatt would sure know more about the marine effects side of all this.
It just seems to me that the standard satellite non-WAAS enabled chart plotted systems have worked fine (Though not nearly as well of course.) for years at keeping folks in the know of their (basic) position. If you’re GPS is WAAS enabled, and looses the WAAS real-time correction function. Is it leaving the whole system out of commission? I’d hope not.
Hatt ???
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Well if you are used to a certain level of accuricy and suddenly lose it, you could be in trouble. Some harbors are extremely narrow, 20ft+/- can make the difference between going through or hitting the rocks. More so with larger commercial traffic.
I bet a few people have issues with this, weather or not it leads to accidents...is hard to say. To many variables.
As a side story a few weeks ago I was coming into Milford harbor at night with very poor visiablity. The GPS said we were not in the channel but I knew we were, and we were. If I had followed the GPS we would have been on the sand bar. Lucky for me I know that harbor like the back of my hand. If it was an unfamiler harbor I would have been following the GPS track.