Originally Posted by
Saintsman
Youngsters these days have no map reading skills. They rely on GPS to get where they are going, whether it is a satnav or more likely, their phone.
Admittedly they are very good at finding places using them, but going back to basics might prove a challenge for most of them.
I agree, but I don't see a problem with this, so long as you engineer resilience into your system (in a military context). Flying hours are finite (borderline non-existant in some fleets) and priorities have to be decided. There are a shed load of other skills that compete for attention and the answer is to ignore clock>map>ground or other traditional methods, and I don't see that as a bad thing given the limitations.