Jay Honeck wrote:

You figured out your position using VORs? What decade was this? ;-)

Can I do that? Sure. Can I name the last time I needed to know that?
Nope. Can I even name the last time I did it? Nope.

If, in ten years and nearly 1000 hours of flying, I've never needed to
figure out my position by looking at the face of my VOR, as if I'd suddenly
awakened in my plane and didn't have a clue where I was, what the hell is it
doing on the written exam for Private Pilot? Who in the world uses VORs
for daily flight anymore?

Well, hell, who uses pilotage anymore? Hasn't everybody got a GPS these days?
Why should anyone be required to learn any form of navigation that isn't
state-of-the-art?

/sarcasm

What will you do when that black box fails? I want to be able to use *any*
navigational equipment that happens to be in the plane I'm flying, and *you'd*
better be able to also ('cause I don't want you running into me while you're
trying to remember how it works).

When they disable the VOR network, *then* they should take all the questions
about it off the exams, but not until then.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.