Originally Posted by
mothminor
And that would only be once you had total electrical failure
My own little aeroplane has no electrics, good job I have a 1/4 mill map. 
I could never understand the opposition to using a quarter mil instead of the 'standard' half mil.
All instructors all seem to trot out the same spiel 'you shouldn't use one because there is too much detail and it confuses students.'
Where did they get that from? I used one from day 1 of my PPL course at Cambridge and I never got confused, in fact I found it helped as there were clear landmarks on the quarter mil which weren't on the half mil.(On cross countries, I also carried a USAF One mil as it had all the runway patterns of all airfields in East Anglia, both in use and disused, marked on it)
Is it something instructors are 'taught' to say on their instructor course?