Roy Smith wrote:

I flew with somebody recently who just got their instrument rating a few
months ago, in a GPS-equipped airplane. His GPS and BAI skills were fine,
but when I suggested we fly one leg without the GPS, just using VORs and a
chart for en-route navigation, he said he had never done that in training.

He was taught that if the GPS should ever die, the fallback would be to use
the #2 radio to request vectors. The only real use he had made of VORs was
to fly a VOR approach (mostly partial-panel, because that's what the
checkride required), never en-route. Is this really the way new instrument
students are being taught these days? Is the VOR already dead in the
classroom?

When I get back to my instrument training, I'm simply not going to have
a GPS in sight. GPS is easy to learn after full training on the
standard instruments.