Originally Posted by IO540
I agree with Fuji Abound. Time to move to the 20th century.
Shall we make that the 21st
Seriously - I think it's about time the lovers of steam gauges got real. GPS navigation and glass cockpits are the way fwd, both for private and commercial aviation.
I, for one, am sick and tired of the 'look out the window' school of thought that would like to forbid even the use of VORs and NDBs
Can a GPS go wrong ? Sure can. So can a signal from a VOR and an NDB and every other technical gizmo hitherto invented.
In fact, I venture to say that GPS makes everyone, and PPLs especially, safer and it's totally idiotic not to train the use of it.
Why? Simple - because you get more time to actually look out the window and scan for traffic ! More situational awareness, more time to actually 'fly' the airplane. Better than burying your head in the cockpit and trying to figure out where you are on a hopelessly cluttered chart. It also reduces workload - and the less workload you have in the cockpit, the more spare capacity (both mental and time) you have for other tasks. Not to mention the NRST function in an emergency.....
Rant over, tin hat on, awaiting low flying steam gauges or parts thereof.