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- Father was in the space program and we lived everywhere the missle program is big. California, White Sands NM, Cape Canaveral. Saw John Glenn in the 4th grade and Armstrong and company my senior year in high school. Always interested in flying and got started in 1999 with the purchase of a basket case Mx. First solo was July 2003, and now have 3 seasons on a super GT400 that really rocks with a dual carb 503 with C box and 3 blade 68" Warp Drive prop.
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My pop was the instumentation engineer of getting the interface to work on the different aircraft and its testing out in California. Got some interesting stories on this stuff.. like when they would be putting them together for firing out on the test range and he was with the crew installing the firing devices to make them work. Problem was they would forget to put the detenator on and when they fired them they wouldn't ignite. Imagine being out with the crew putting the warheads on and seeing that they forgot the detn.. The crew wouldn't believe him that they forgot so he got on top of the Geanie and sat down on it and told them he wasn't moving till they took the nose off.. they did and to their amazement they found no detnator!
Ha.. well those boys couldnt' keep their mouths shut and the station manager visited my dad late in the day asking what the problem was on the test that day.. Pop asked him what problem? They all worked didn't they? So the station manger left in a huff.. the supervisor got word his ass wasn't grass and wondered why not and got over to see my dad and asked why didn't he dime him out.. Pop said if he was out to help he was going to help,, not dime people out.. Awesome, eh? The Challenger disaster was along that line.. the engineers knew it would blow but wouldn't say anything .. if my pop had been around he woudl have told the flight commander what was up but at that time most of the old hands had been retired or died from heart attacks.. the space program aint what it use to be.. nothing comes close to the Saturan Rocket for payload and clean burn..
RAM makes a 2X magnifying lense that you can mount over any of the small GPS faces that also really helps with the small space we have and we can see the screen easier.
As for Navigation Please learn to navigate without the GPS and also have a backup... Get a another one for the primary and let the little 315 be your backup if the other fails. That is why GA pilots carry a handheld unit with them.
But do practice your navigation. I fly all my navigation alternate with and without GPS everyother time within 150 miles of home. It keeps me sharp.
I see you got your start as a kid being around the space program, so did I. I was growing up in Huntsville, AL late 50's to middle 60's, Redstone to Saturn days.