Lecture on Navigation on Thursday this week.

[BEagle]

The practice of good visual (VFR) navigation is accurate map reading

Absolutely NOT!! The basis of good VFR navigation is:

PLAN accurately
FLY accurately
THINK AHEAD!

And knowing your ar$e from your elbows, of course.

Map reading is a distinctly secondary skill - merely needed to verify your pre-selected visual waypoints. A VFR GPS most certainly helps - and it can back up your pre-flight GS and ETA estimates, as well as helping with minimising TKE.

Might pop along to this event - anyone else going? I've programmed the location into my Garmin nüvi in case it's too cloudy for a 3-shot astro fix whilst nipping up the Fosse Way and A5...