Mumbo, I'm genuinely sorry your colleague was killed when a GPS would have prevented that.
But I don't see how that reflects on instructors who are unable or unwilling to fly to the same standard on basic exercises that they're asking students to do.
We're not talking about advanced or unusual training here. This is straight-forward flying that any half-competent instructor needs to be able to do to a professional standard.
If an instructor needs to use a GPS when they're with a student on a VFR DR navex, especially using it secretively as in the original post, the student should be asking very loudly why they're being asked to do an exercise that the instructor can't do.
Why don't instructors go back to sextants and underwear on the outside ? Because that's not what we're asking students to do. We want them to be competent at VFR DR nav. A simple, basic, fundamental flying skill.
Last edited by Unhinged; 29th January 2006 at 10:15.