Al - Wasn't objecting to him backing up his nav with navaids (although I'd still say it smacks of pretty poor basic teaching if you're doing it on a ginners day), my issue was with listing the route like a flightplan - beacon idents, ICAO codes, and 'DCT's. Just seems rather pathetic to me!
TB - Agree with you about professionalism, but I don't think listing a VFR route as if you're filling in a flightplan makes you 'professional'!