Hmm... if using a sextant was on the syllabus, I would learn to do so, and I would learn it well enough that I could teach it with confidence. But it's not. We can't change the syllabus, we can only teach it to the best of our ability.
As for using bonfires for landing at night - landing on runways 13/31 at Blackpool was pretty much like that until last week, when they officially closed it for night operations because the lights weren't up to CAA specifications
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