I would like to make one more comment regarding the safest, easiest and best way to fly from A to B.
For me the easiest and most comfortable is to apply take off power and rotate to the correct deck angle as I enter cloud just after lift off. As long as I stay in cloud and follow the clearance issued and read back I am as safe as Aviation will allow. A plus is to have either the Airbus or Boeing PFD and ECAM to make life even easier.
With the foregoing I can toss my sectional map in the back pull out my latest picture book and look at the pictures, until ATC askes me some trivia like squak ident.
So there you all have the easiest way to navigate. ( By the way both Airbus and Boeing use GPS as one of the nav aids being compared against the older methods. )
Cat Driver:
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.