I have been thinking about navigation using different methods to determine where you are and where you are heading and got to thinking about all the thousands of hours we flew in the Arctic using the astro compass and an ADF as our only source of aids for determining our position.
Then as we progressed to GNS then to Loran we thought we had died and gone to heaven...then came GPS which was even better.
My first over water intercontinental ferry flights were done without any electronic aids except an ADF with B.F.O. capability and there were moments when we were really not sure where we were.
All this talk about failure of electronic aids such as GPS is fine but would I choose to go back to the days of the radio range and the astro compass...no.
I am curious if there are many of you here who flew when the radio range was the prime means of flying airways?