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Out of interest, how do commercial pilots navigate?
What I also have though is the basic skills that, if all that failed I would still be able to work out where I was going - and that started with what I learnt during my PPL training!
To me there is no argument against GPS once you have learnt the basics, it is replacing the basics with GPS that I disagree with.
I certainly never suggested that the basics not be taught first and I have not seen any other instructor say that either.
What I did say is rather than pretending GPS doesn't exist in the PPL course I think that it should be introduced after the basic concepts. Done properly it reinforces good navigational practices.
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That is the question reduced to a binary choice again. In PPL training GPS Bad ! anywhere, anytime, Basic nav GOOD ! all the time, everywhere