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Old 04-03-2008
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I've no quibble with radar. If you're using a GPS/chartplotter to enter a strange harbor though, by night or by day, you're deluding yourself that you're navigating. billyruffin's last post is a nice summation of how piloting should be done when entering port or working in close quarters. Those chartplotters, especially those where the charts are over a year old (90%?), are going to start getting more and more people killed. Visual is real. Radar is real. Chartplotters are a cartoon that may or may not be real.
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