Yes do learn how useful a GPS is. It is a real safety aid.
Fly with a pilot using a GPS in a light aircraft and I'll bet they spend more time looking at the GPS than the view outside.
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We’re all entitled to our opinions, but I fail to see how working maps, watches, writing things down, estimating cross track, working the protractor and wiz wheel, guestimating how much, and in which direction to turn to get back on course, and all the other things that ‘ded reckoning’ requires can provide superior situational awareness.
I do recommend having a map to hand, and checking off your weigh points on the line you have drawn, but that only takes 10 seconds every 10 minutes. Hard to get lost then don’t you think?
W.B.