Too true, 411A!
I'm keen to see GPS receive greater acceptance in the UK and it's pleasing to see the CAA making cautious progress at last. I guess the mythical 'ex-RAF navigators' are keeping themselves happy shooting astro from the roof of the Belgrano (CAA building at Gatport Airwick), whilst the young(-ish) thrusters convince them that GPS isn't just some Devil's device!
When ADF replaced MFDF, people thought it was fantastic. As they did when the 4-course MF radio range system came into use in the US in 1929 (I guess even you weren't 'flying the range' back then, 411?) - and again when VOR came along. LORAN-C was another quantum leap, as was Omega....
So why is GPS viewed with such suspicion?
I went flying with a qualified (but lapsed) pilot today in an aircraft fitted with a panel-mounted GPS. She told me that none of her previous instructors had even bothered to switch the GPS on.....
WHY?? I spent a lot of money equipping all our aircraft with Garmin GPS150 or GNC250 systems, yet the Jurassica cannot be bothered to learn how to use them......and it's so VERY simple!