When things go wrong
Yesterday I flew down to the south coast with a decent weather forecast. When I got there it was horrible: hazy, misty just awful. I must admit I thought it was a little bit of "yuck" and I'd fly through it, I didn't.
Whilst still legal (in sight of sound, 4km visibility) it was way outside what I was confident in.
I was very happy to abandon my plog, tune the VOR to home as well as switch the GPS to "get me home". I followed both of these and was home safe and sound 15mins later.
However it dawned on me that whilst VFR flight is possible in those situations, VFR navigation is NOT.
Therefore, isn't flying on GPS basically flying on "instruments" ?
Yes I expect to be lectured on how I shouldn't have pressed on thnking it would be better etc. I think I should've turned back earlier but the forecast was ringing in my ears. I'd be more interested in discussing if GPS is flying on instruments and maybe we should avoid it all together if VFR ?
I still don't know what I'd do if GPS did not cross reference with what the VOR was saying.