Does anyone fly these days without carrying at least a portable/handheld GPS?
Other than for IR renewals, I haven't tracked on a VOR or ADF for at least 10 years.
In the 43 years I have been flying, GPS is the greatest innovation/advance to appear in that time.
As a non-IR PPL who has blunded into IMC I reckon that last thing you want to be doing is fiddling around looking for VOR/ADF frequencies and dialling them up - just do the 180 and follow the magenta line back the way you came, or climb in a safe direction to a safe height and ask for help!
Dr 