Roy Smith wrote in
:

What would you do if you lost comm and didn't have a VOR receiver? Do
you have some other way to navigate on your own? If you had GPS,
you'd be able to fly airways with that. ADF only? I suppose it's
possible. People used to do it. Not sure why you'd want to do it
today.

You could fly the airways more or less with the GPS. Older ones that do
not have the actual airways shown would be a problem, since the magnetic
heading to the VOR and the VOR heading to the VOR are frequently off by a
significant amount.

Either way you need charts, since lots of airways have bends in them.

FWIW, a few years ago I tried saving a lot of time on a route by throwing
into the route VOR -- NDB1 -- NDB2 -- VOR. ATC had big trouble with it,
the smaller terminal NDB's were not in their computer and they had no idea
where they were. Actually, it worked well... they got frustrated and just
gave me direct. G

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