mcbruce: cheers for the post. I flew today with my instructor, discussed properly what we were going to do, and things were an improvement since last time. Put the map away for a while and focused on what was going on aound us. Also, used the clock method this time - previously had been memorising sine functions of the different angles.
The map fixating was definately an issue, and spending too much time trying to do calculations when getting the ETAs. Hopefully the skills should sharpen up quickly.
Boeing dreamer: Thanks for the points as well. With great weather in the UK at the moment with good VIS, selecting a point and flying to that reference certainly helped.
Just out of curiosity McBrunce and Boeing dream, where did you guys do your hour building (UK or elsewhere) and was that mostly navigating using DR and totally ridding yourself of GPS?
Cheers