GPS and treework

[treeslayer]

what a blessing these things are.

until you realize it took you on a wrong turn, drove you into a lake and you had to hit the gas to get across..............

 

[ATH]

Mythbusters had an episode about skipping a car across water - I don't recall how fast they got it too, I was thinking 80ish and they did skip a small pond/large puddle. However, I am not sure you could get all the way across Lake MI, but you'd get a pretty good skip at 332 mph (well, that is, unless you had 2 large airfoils on your flanks )

 

[sgreanbeans]

mine does the same thing when next to the Mississippi, looks like a USMC blood strip!

 

[Sunrise Guy]

My GPS has been going goofy, lately. It takes me around a block and then sends me off in the original direction. As my gf and I have figured out: There are too many GPS units around, now. The gal sitting up in the GPS satellite is getting overloaded giving out some billion bits of information every few seconds. She's too tired to do the job correctly, these days, so she's messing up, on purpose, hoping that they'll bring her back down to earth so she can ditch the gig.

 

[Grace Tree]

My GPS has been going goofy, lately. It takes me around a block and then sends me off in the original direction. As my gf and I have figured out: There are too many GPS units around, now. The gal sitting up in the GPS satellite is getting overloaded giving out some billion bits of information every few seconds. She's too tired to do the job correctly, these days, so she's messing up, on purpose, hoping that they'll bring her back down to earth so she can ditch the gig.

Wow! That's the scientific explanation. How about putting it in layman's language?
Phil

 

[pdqdl]

The satellites don't do any thinking or processing for the gps units on the ground , they just sit way up high, beeping very regularly like sputnick.

Your GPS unit listens to the signals, then calculates where it is at. The better the GPS unit, the more accurate the information. If you are getting lost, blame it on the gps unit in your car.

 

[dandandatreeman]

mine does the same thing when next to the Mississippi, looks like a USMC blood strip!

Semper Fidelis brother! And wow slayer 300+ mph! You set a truck water record. My gps got put on walking mode and the arrival time would be a day to just go 20 miles. It would also try to put me off in really crazy directions.

 

[treeslayer]

And wow slayer 300+ mph! You set a truck water record.

Truck runs a lot faster than that................

 

[dandandatreeman]

Mine too before I blew my injection pump. Poor billy goat has been in the drive way since work is down to one or two days a week on account of rain. It's rained so much down here that my teeth are floating and I'm going mad!