Originally Posted by
math341c
Thank you for the help and clarification it give sense now. I do also not see the sense making it on paper. It is just waste of paper. And about learning; I can learn the same things doing it in a software. I need to know what all the symbols on the charts know etc, I have a book for that that explains it all. I just wanted a software where I have all in one for planning. It seems that ForeFLight is the good option.
I will take a look at ForeFlight, but when I see their basic subscription it also says that it covers VFR, so I do need need SKYDEMON subscription anymore? ForeFlight is covers the VFR features?
Sadly you don't seem to have much sense at all. I cannot for the life of me understand why you would not want to know how to do things on paper. You may one day get the chance of some interesting flying, ferry, airtest etc other than A to B, I can assure you the normal stuff will get boring.
During the covid shutdown, I and a old friend of mine, he is a TRI with a rather large 737 operator head office in Dublin did some ferry flights to the middle east and beyond on older 73's. I spent several days with him, getting him up to speed on planning, ploting etc all on paper, even though I have Jepp on ipads, because if things go wrong, you are on your own. He was astounded, he had never learnt these basic skills and felt humbled by this old lag. He is now using some of the old ways to teach airmanship to the FO's at his base.
You want to be a Professional Pilot, you should know how to fly, not just button press. What would you do if your iPad went off over the Sahara?