Hmm, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Soley in respect to radio navigation I am not a fan of introducing it prior to QXC.
QXC is supposed to ensure you can do the basic act of visual navigation. I would search my students and confiscate GPS devices prior to each solo Navex.
You either do not know how to use radio nav kit or you do know, have been trained and tested and found competent.
A halfway house of having been shown roughly how it all works - its dead simple see.. - is a recipe for disaster. It nearly killed me once so I speak from both sides of the fence.
Had you been trying to use ADF whilst dodging thunderstorms then the outcome would not have been pretty.
Also, not all club/school aircraft have the same or indeed any radio nav kit fitted. It would be inherently dangerous for an instructor to send you out in an aircraft that didn't have a VOR/DME box when you had been covertly relying on such a box to get you safely through your previous solo navex's. Your instructor would not know this.
Hence I am against introducing radionav to basic PPL students prior to a good standard of basic nav having been achieved.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Applies to all levels and spheres of aviation and is a maxim worth remembering at all times.
I also doubt that any instructor would have sent a solo student out on a Navex with thunderstorms in the local area. FI's are paranoid about that particular scenario and I have never ever met one who wasn't and didn't as a result ere on the side of extreme caution.
On what date was it that you flew this navex?
Not knowing the terminology QDM is alarming as is not having passed at least PPL Law.
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