How do you get from A to B?

[FNG]

I look out of the window, look at the map, and look at my watch. I have my headings and times on my knee and on my map, but rarely write anything down once in the air.

I'm not being deliberately luddite, but I still haven't found the time to learn how to get the best out of the GPS in my aircraft (it has no radio navaids), so I mostly ignore it (an occasional glance at the display to see if the EG code for an a nearby airfield is the one it should be). I know that I should be able to do wacky things with it, use it as a virtual VOR and so on, but the manual is bigger than the POH for the aeroplane. The POH has better jokes as well.

I have only used VORs once outside training and that was in a rented aircraft with a VOR in featureless northern France, where I found that radial cross cuts gave me a good fix.

I agree that DR is great fun when you get it right. I remember the first time I did it in a yacht, crossing the Straits of Gibraltar at night and finding the harbour. It's just as good in an aeroplane. Always pleasant to say "the airfield should be coming up...just now" and find that it is.