dsc810, I hope your post is a wind-up. If not, it's seriously worrying.
if you can't navigate visually in a glider and risk losing control and / or busting airspace you have no right to be up there. GPS should only be a back up. If it's beyond you to be professional in the air, never mind manage basic visual navigation, you should indeed give up as you can't hack it. 'Contributors to the sport' who are likely to contribute the wrong kind of publicity, or even tragic headlines, we can do without.
How do you think VFR flyers coped before GPS? We didn't go around getting lost (well, not often and not for long!), and we didn't bust airspace or lose control of the aeroplane (which was going faster than a glider and had a few more things to keep an eye on). Does your CFI know you can't navigate yet are flying cross country?
I'm an advocate of GPS, but not in place of basic skills!
Last edited by Shaggy Sheep Driver; 17th Dec 2015 at 21:23.