Surely someone at this level should have the basic skills and be now looking to develop and polish "tertiary" level skills
Actually a lot of the Dip. Av students start out with PPL (or none!!) and work their way up to CPL/ATPL over the next 3 or 4 years.. at least, those that I've met have all been doing it that way... so possibly these guys in the poster's class might only recently have been let loose on their own in aircraft.. in which case, this is a fab opportunity for them to 'fine tune' their nav skills... as earlier posters have said, I'd rather already know how to navigate with hte bare minimum than be under pressure to figure it out when the GPS goes bung in the middle of the gafa..!
That said, they could be more 'advanced & tertiary level'... but I'm bettingt hese guys are still in the stage where they want to learn as much as possible!!
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