I always use map as primary means of navigation, but on longer flights (outside let's say 30nm from base) i try to remember to bring the 296 the club has for a yoke mount as well. I don't input a flightplan in it, but it's switched on and I know how to use it.
We also have ADF/VOR/DME in our Cessna, and I use it when convenient.
For me to use GPS as anything more then a backup and confirmation of the map reading, more then one GPS must be available.
I work as a controller, and have given navigation assistance using radar to aircraft that ran out of power on their GPS a few times the last few years....... (stupid to have that happen to you, but it is obviously possible)
...incidentally two of those times I also discovered that they where flying without a VFR map as well! (They where unable to navigate around danger areas regulated airspace etc even when they fixed their position)
They flew using a WAC from the early 90s, and relied on moving map GPS with database.
One was HB-reg, the other G-reg.
One thing that also happens, it that flights planning via navaids or Lat/long points far apart get lost when weather worsens and forces VFR flights to follow the terrain when clouds "cap" all the valleys.
However the summer is over, and the stream of North Cape flyers has dried up for this season!
