Originally Posted by
Johnm
I’m over 70, I don’t have an up to date paper chart for anywhere. I have skydemon on iPad with all the plates and maps for most of Europe and a Garmin 650 in the panel. I fly IFR and VFR all over the place. It is impossible to fly a light aircraft IFR without GPS. If anyone switches off the GPS I’ll ask ATC for vectors to where I want to be.
Not yet quite impossible in the UK, although becoming hard now they are starting to turn off the VORs. Cranfield is a big loss around where I fly. Quite a lot of my IFR time is technically VOR and NDB tracking with a VFR only GPS 'for cross reference' although we now also have a 650.