Interesting. My thinking is the opposite, that "paper maps should be used as and when required."
And that would only be once you had total electrical failure, and your GPS, and your ipad, and your phone batteries also went flat. The level of electronic redundancy in the average cockpit today is close to (if not at) infallible.
Of course, you'd then discover you don't actually have the right map anyway...
Even the idea of 'useful for pre-flight planning' or 'situational awareness' is moot given the topographic information now electronically available.
I'm surprised to hear the contrary. I haven't flown with someone using a map as primary resource in at least 10 years, actually probably more.
Last edited by Sam Rutherford; 11th Nov 2017 at 17:27.
Reason: adding in paper, thanks for the observation!