I was thinking along the lines of Endsley's "internalized mental model of the current state of the flight environment" consisting of geographic, spatial/temporal, system, environment and tactical elements definition of SA. I got curious about this a couple of months ago - I got lost in the woods and the course of action I took to find my way back was not what my friends (competition orienteer-ers) expected. When I thought about it, the process I used to solve the problem was something I learned early in my flight training, but asking around my training was the exception not the rule. So it got me curious - what is the normal method to teach SA and how effective is it? Are some methods more effective than others?