It took immense effort to NOT get the map out every couple of minutes to stare at. Whenever you do that, your heading drifts, so does your altitude and so does your speed. That's how you miss your destination and get lost.
When you start naving the map is as addictive as crack cocaine. It's as hard a habit to break, but it's the secret. Trust your PLOG put the map away.
That is funny; it's exactly what I think/would have thought. Was taught to do the exact opposite; map in hand at all times, only pick the PLOG up to note waypoint passages...
Argument being that I'm VFR and should be looking out the window.
I don't like it one bit; have decided to do everything exactly as told in training and not even
begin to consider changing anything until I get my PPL, but I have a strong feeling I will reverse this practice at PPL + ½ hour. I want to be looking out in order to spot traffic, not staring down on the ground to identify some totally uninteresting little lake 4 mins short of my waypoint.