Inoperative Equipment We Learn To Live Without (And Shouldn't)

摘要

Oh, sorry, that hasn't worked for a while," the pilot said when he noticed I was trying to tune the DME in his aircraft while flying a couple of instrument approaches for his currency. "What do you do when you fly an approach that requires DME?" I asked him, hoping the answer was that he didn't do those since it wasn't working. "Well, I don't actually do many IFR approaches, but when I do run across that situation, I kind of rely on this," he said, as he pointed to his yoke-mounted portable GPS.