Cats
It's good to hear you had such a positive experience. Are you willing to reveal which club this was at? Also, what was surprising about the GP's approach to nav?
Yep -Lasham.
OK, a big, mature outfit, but not at all stuffy. Very friendly, good humoured and clubby (I'm not a member, there are not enough hours in a day right now)
Nav. Well generally as a PPL, for me it's 'choose a destination, draw some lines avoiding the hot spots, dial the numbers in, point the aeroplane and go' with generally enough slack time to keep an eye on progress.
Maybe it's just me, but what with going round in circles a lot of the time, watching out for others doing the same, hunting lift which is going to be in a different place from the chosen course, keeping OCAS and VMC, and of course the steed heading inexorably downhill as well ... I guess I just don't have enough brainpower to manage a map and maybe comms as well.
I am just impressed with those who can. Or maybe I'm setting my personal bar too high? (I shouldn't have mentioned 'bar')
SD