At the risk of being called names such as 'Grandpa', 'Old Bugger,' 'Has been', (insert the epithet of your choice):
Whilst I consider automation to generally be of an assistance/improvement into helping Pilots fly more effeciently, I stll maintain that
any Pilot could and should on occasion where circumstances permit, fly a leg of a flight
solely on reference to a VOR, DME and/or an NDB, (whilst they still exist)
And in the case of a GA IFR flight, fly the leg
without the use of the Autopilot!
I will freely admit to it have been quite a few years since I flew SP IFR, but I would always make a point of doing the above on at least one leg of a flight.
I called this procedure,
Keeping up to the standards I was originally trained to.
And thank you for that, the Late and dearly missed Tony Kingham.
