Thanks very much for your novel point of view--never heard here before. Just so we can put the right weight onto your statement, care to enlighten us as to what your qualifications and level of experience exactly are?
Not to dismiss any truth in your statement out of hand, but it sounds a bit naïve, on the "this is what my instructor told me so it must be true" side. If you care to read a few pages back you will see that it's been mentioned that for your PPL (and CPL) you should be taught to use everything you've got in your aircraft, GPS included. Once you're out there in the big world, a busy arrival at some big airport in IMC in a fast aircraft is really not the time to start mucking about with VORs and ADFs. In real-world flying a GPS will quickly become your best friend, so forget whatever crap your instructor might have fed you.
This from someone who does not use GPS for flying (enough of it on my day job)--I like my steam gauges, and if the place where I end up on looks distinctly unlike my intended destination, well so be it. I fly just for the fun of it and I'm not really that bothered
(Sigh)
Well I'm doing my PPL at the moment, 7 hours solo, first solo nav after 15, in fact, I did it today, this is however irrelevant to this topic. This is about someone who's just passed their PPL, and obviously hasn't been taught properly and wants advice.
I hope to god you never think about becoming an instructor, because it's probably people like you which is the reason that he's come out of his PPL without the simple knowledge of knowing how to get back on track after getting lost. Who said anything about fast aircraft's? I highly doubt someone who's just passed their PPL, and is probably hour building is going to go flying into London Heathrow, unless of course their looking forward to paying a hefty bill.
if the place where I end up on looks distinctly unlike my intended destination, well so be it
That's great advice... just fly to something that looks distinctly correct and everything will be ok and if not, oh well... i've got a GPS. Great advice, really good.
If what your saying is true, that your day job is more than just VFR flying, then i'd have expected a better response.
