[GeoStL] Re: GPS on Plane -- any problems?

  • From: "tnands" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:22:33 -0500

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If I were to pick one more person from THIS list who now has gotten himself 
on "THE LIST", hypothetically of course, who would I pick ??  hmmmmm

Nancy



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M. Bollinger"

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> Why I'd NEVER use a non approved electronic device while on a plane, but 
> hypothetically speaking, if I were to use it, like on our trip to Seattle, 
> I'd hook it to my laptop and wedge the GPS between the seat in front of me 
> and the window.  That way it could, hypothetically speaking of course, get 
> a good signal and you could watch where you were on MapSource or other 
> program with out drawing much attention to what you were doing.  This is, 
> of course be predicated on being able to use a GPS while on the plane. 
> Should a stewardess come by, you could switch to a computer game and no 
> one would be the wiser, hypothetically speaking, of course.
>
>  You could, if you were to hypothetically be doing this, see what you were 
> flying over, and when you saw a town or lake or river, you could see what 
> that land feature is on your laptop.  You could also leave a track to see 
> where you were.  You could also see your airspeed and altitude at any 
> given time, hypothetically speaking of course.  You could also set a 
> waypoint to your destination airport and see how much time it will take 
> for you to get there.  Of course, I'd NEVER do that and this is only a 
> hypothetical situation that didn't really happen while we were flying to 
> and back from our trip to Seattle.
>
>  It would be, hypothetically speaking, be great fun and a diversion on a 
> long flight.
>
>  Mike (Who would NEVER break any of those important rules that you are 
> supposed to follow while on an airplane, and is only using this email to 
> talk about a purely hypothetically situation that NEVER happend in 
> reality)
>
> 

 

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