Radio: As above. Keep it simple. Non of this TR-PACER confusion.
Who/What/Where/Wequest
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Borrow/buy an airband radio and listen in. I also did a 2 day RT course which included the written and Oral test. This helped a lot and was good fun.
Navigation: Most importand thing is "Hold your heading and speed".
Looking at the ground too much will convince you that you are somewhere that you are not.
Even if you are well off course at your ETA over a waypoint you will at least know why and can make an accurate correction.
My mistake early on was not holding heading as I was too distracted by other things. By the time I got to the waypoint, any correction made would be useless unless I was equally awful in holding my heading for the next section.
Unfortunately I am inconsistent in my level of inconsistency
