EN48
I'm with you when you say "wouldnt want to go back to the (not so) good old days for anything".
I'd hate to have to do my job without a GPS Moving Map as it leaves me so much more mental RAM to deal with other issues. And that basically is the very point of this thread.........
I put myself in situations now that I would never have considered when I was required to do 'proper navigation'. Other pilots do the same. And on the whole that's no bad thing as more is acheivable with a greater degree of safety than before. The price for this imrovement in capability however, is that we can now push further into worsening weather conditions until we reach our mental capacity but for other reasons than simply navigating. The skill, is suppose, is in recognising when you are reaching your mental capacity threshold and doing something positive to reduce the workload.
JJ