Nubboy, Beagle will be thrilled to see you advocating SCA. I do not teach this myself though.
"lurker" checking in...agree with the above.....but then I'm a similar era to Beagle, and taught similar ....certainly for medium level Nav, track crawling came much later in the game..
As I rcall it back in the day of teaching basic Nav the crux point was that between the dreaded "events" in the event cycle you
looked out and flew accurately. (and BTW when the chart was picked up it was held up at almost eye level)
Given the number of midairs I've read about recently I would have thought that still apllies, which I guess begs the question from a non PPLer - is Nav by ipad/track crawl compatible with a good lookout?