Sorry Beags, I'm not too familiar with the PPL syllabus. As you know, in the RAF at EFT we're training to leave some capacity for actually
doing a job, not just getting from 'a' to 'b'. They are taught to use TAS corrections for ML Nav, though.
The MDR is never going to be 100% accurate but it does enough to funnel the student pilot into a reasonable area to apply 'Big to Small' to find their Fix or Turning Pt without undue effort. Surely for the lowest common denomenator PPL, that should also ring true, although they may be using a higher %age of their grey matter to even "gash it" , as you so eloquently put it.
And if you can "gash it" routinely, then i might suggest that you also have a better chance of successfully "gashing it" when under the duress of an emergency diversion-type situation?!?
Uncle G
