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One LORAN C reciever.
CYHQ THE U.S. COAST GUARD WILL COMMENCE TERMINATING THE TRANS
OF ALL U.S. DOMESTIC LORAN-C SIGNALS. ALL U.S. AND CANADIAN
LORAN-C STATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO CEASE TRANS BY APRX
OCTOBER 01, 2010. SEE WWW.NOTMAR.GC.CA FOR UPDATES. USERS
SHALL ADDRESS INQUIRIES TO:
MANAGER
AIDS TO NAVIGATION
CANADIAN COAST GUARD
200 KENT ST., 5TH FLOOR
OTTAWA, ONTARIO
CANADA
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TEL: 613-998-1405
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Sad. I rather enjoyed using it in the 172 I flew in Campbell River during the summer. :smt040
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If you strap 3 together, will it make a gps? :smt040
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Note to self:"At next annual, remove the clunky Loran receiver, and install MP3 player..." :D
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So, does that mean if you know what a LORAN is and how to use it you can join the old geezer club and complain how simple minded new pilots are these days? :wink:
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Invertago wrote:So, does that mean if you know what a LORAN is and how to use it you can join the old geezer club and complain how simple minded new pilots are these days? :wink:
Do you mean to tell me that some pilots do not know how to use a Loran? Good grief, what is this world coming to.
How about Radio Range? Is that gone too? I loved that A and N hum in the earphones for hours.

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beaverbob wrote:
Invertago wrote:So, does that mean if you know what a LORAN is and how to use it you can join the old geezer club and complain how simple minded new pilots are these days? :wink:
Do you mean to tell me that some pilots do not know how to use a Loran? Good grief, what is this world coming to.
How about Radio Range? Is that gone too? I loved that A and N hum in the earphones for hours.

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I hope the elimination of AM... and the digitification (my new word, TM) of voice!
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I for one do miss CW... Amazed LORAN-C held out as long as it did really.

Can I be a member of the geezer club too? : P

I can send and copy 12wpm in morse. lol
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Invertago wrote:So, does that mean if you know what a LORAN is and how to use it you can join the old geezer club and complain how simple minded new pilots are these days? :wink:
The first area nav set I used was DECCA, I guess that makes me a super old geezer 8)
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I can hardly wait for the day when I can brag about using a compass, back when the magnetic north pole was still in the arctic! I'm also looking forward to telling young future aviators how I did my PPL with out a full autopilot!
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TC is going to have to make up a new ATPL question....
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Invertago wrote:I can hardly wait for the day when I can brag about using a compass, back when the magnetic north pole was still in the arctic! I'm also looking forward to telling young future aviators how I did my PPL with out a full autopilot!
I feel old everytime they talk about solo spins prohibited for the CPL, I was doing solo spins on a SPP and spin demo on the PPL flight test.

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Lurch wrote: I feel old everytime they talk about solo spins prohibited for the CPL, I was doing solo spins on a SPP and spin demo on the PPL flight test.

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In addition to using CW, I even recall the time delay charts for LORAN ... zeesh!

OFD ... lived in ... east to west .... VE1, VE2, VE3, VE4, VE5, VE7, VY1
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The Old Fogducker wrote:In addition to using CW, I even recall the time delay charts for LORAN ... zeesh!

OFD ... lived in ... east to west .... VE1, VE2, VE3, VE4, VE5, VE7, VY1
Excellent!

Oddly enough I do remember seeing the delay chart for the Chain out here on the West Coast... Even visited one of the Master Stations at Riske Creek. That's one HUGE antenna. :shock:
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I remember back in the day before AFIS and Datalink, I actually had to MANUALLY enter the flight plan into the FMS.....It was hell. Especially on flights over a couple of hours.....there had to be a couple of dozen waypoints at least and man were my fingers tired after that......
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Tibor wrote:I remember back in the day before AFIS and Datalink, I actually had to MANUALLY enter the flight plan into the FMS.....It was hell. Especially on flights over a couple of hours.....there had to be a couple of dozen waypoints at least and man were my fingers tired after that......
That is just wrong :shock:
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Oh, and I remember when I had to fly to flight school with a headwind both ways.......In 3 inches of rime ice
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ski_bum wrote:TC is going to have to make up a new ATPL question....
Nah, they'll probably just leave it there and require instructors to continue to teach it, even though it doesn't exist... :roll:
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Tibor wrote:Oh, and I remember when I had to fly to flight school with a headwind both ways.......In 3 inches of rime ice
:lol: . I like it.
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