FNG
Exactly that.
You really must embrace technology when it provides a clear-cut advantage.
I learned to fly using visual navigation because they didn't put radio aids in any of my FTO's singles and I couldn't afford a Decca at the time.
Nowadays everyone can have gps and I haven't been in a plane for 30 years that didn't have VOR and ADF. So if you want to fly from Newcastle to Lands End it would surely make sense to use radio aids and gps as your prime navigation. If the GPS/DME says you are two miles from controlled airspace then most likely you are. What's the point in trying to work out which dual carriageway that is crossing which railway line?
Unfortunately there is no promulgated Modern VFR Navigation Method. Perhaps we should develop one on a thread here?
[ 25 February 2002: Message edited by: twistedenginestarter ]</p>