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A GPS is supposed to direct you to a location, but it didn't help a pilot who was heading from Yorkton to Big River. Heading home Sunday morning from church, Mel and I spotted an airplane in a turning lane between Denholm and Ruddell. What a sight that was.
Mel talked to the pilot and this was the way his GPS had told him to go. Mel sent him to North Battleford to fuel up and get his GPS checked and he was on his way. The highway was clear so off he went.
The Global Positioning System or GPS is a satellite-based navigation system. Military use was the original intent, however in the 1980s, the U.S. government decided to allow the GPS program to be used by civilians.
Weather conditions do not affect GPS navigation and the system works 24/7 anywhere in the world. There are no subscription fees or setup charges to use GPS.
GPS devices can include maps, including streets maps; turn-by-turn navigation directions via text or speech; directions fed directly to an autonomous vehicle such as a robotic probe; traffic congestion maps depicting either historical or real time data and suggesting alternative directions; and information on nearby amenities such as restaurants, gas stations, hotels, airports and tourist attractions. It can give you options such as the shortest route between two locations and different routes such as ones that stay on highways or that use back roads.
This is what a GPS is supposed to do but it didn't help that pilot.
