Jay Honeck writes:

However, when the pilot is freed from the burdens of navigation, he may
fly more freely.

But when the pilot who knows nothing of navigation and depends on a
computer to fly loses the computer, he dies more quickly.

It used to be that I didn't dare wander too far off
my planned flight, cuz that's what I had marked on the charts. In
fact, as a new pilot, if I diverted off my flight path (to look at
something on the ground, for example), I would laboriously fly BACK to
my original flight path, just so I could find all of my landmarks.

Those days are long gone, thanks to moving-map GPS. (Well, and 1500
hours of experience.)

Surely you could do much the same in the past, albeit with a bit more
effort.

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