Amos. What a vicious reply. Before he became a flight safety writer Mac Job was a professional pilot with the RDFS while you were still in nappies. He flew old aeroplanes with none of the bells and whistles of ADF, VOR, ILS, GPS. Some of those old aircraft had no AH. Try flying those at night in the outback where navigation to pick up patients was by dead reckoning and car lights. You probably wouldn't last five minutes.
Mac Jobs real expertise now, is his skill at turning a dead boring lengthy accident report into a thoroughly readable accurate story.
You would do well to read his Air Disaster and Air Crash series as well as the Aviation Safety Digests. They are worth more in terms of flight safety for pilots than all the CASA Flight Safety Forums rolled into one.
EPIRB. Dick McLean is alive and kicking and lives a few miles from Bendigo. He has recovered from a heart attack which hit him a couple of years ago.