Quote:
Originally Posted by Orion
"...LOL...do all those poo-pooing anti-GPS'ers really believe that people are down in the cockpit with their eyes glued to a GPS screen screaming across the lake blindly...?"
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Outlook Express difficulties had me deleting older messages this morning. What the source originally was of this quote that follows—I don't know, but here it is:
Quote:
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"I wondered if anyone had any ideas about achieving better night vision in conjunction with a GPS. The few times I went out at night and tried to follow the GPS...I found myself almost completely blinded by the screen. While I could read the GPS just fine, I couldn't see a thing in the water! In fact, it was so bad that I finally just turned the thing off and did my best following the lit buoys and shore lights."
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Others I located are GPS-related boating collisions involving
fatalities—
those I can post at a later time.
Maybe FLL's related question will be answered soon-enough, too. Maybe you've also noticed that the midnight sky is lightening very early lately, with another two weeks before it peaks at the 1-year anniversary
of that crash.
So, even though I went to the trouble to find links
not used for now, here's this boater's most-sensible approach to GPS use:
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"...never ever follow your GPS at night at a speed greater than you can see what lies ahead. A GPS is not a radar, and probably causes as many accidents as it helps people not get lost. It is a tool only to help you maintain a course..."
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ETA:
It's happened to one of us!
My point:
there's no substitute for the eyeball.
(Athough I guess GPS
does have its place.)
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