Have we stopped teaching VOR skills?

GPS is easy to learn after full training on the standard instruments.

Hmmm... as a pilot you are obligated to learn every piece of equipment in
your aircraft. The GPS is a piece of equipment that could really save
your skin and the aircraft if the single engine quits.

Instead of your current attitude, you really should consider incorporating
all of your equipment into your training.

The reason not to, is that one needs to learn VOR/DME/ADF navigation and
attitude flying, and there may be a tendency to rely on the GPS, to the
detriment of the more basic =training=. One would therefore have less
than ideal basic skills.

You are right, GPS is a wonderful tool, and should =also= be learned and
integrated. However, the hard part of GPS isn't the GPS or the map or
the needle... it is the interface, and they are =far= from standard.
Teach someone VOR and they are good to go in most any plane. Teach
someone GPS and they will still need a type rating(*) for each and every
other GPS system on the planet.

Jose

(*) note to Steve - this is not to be taken literally - this is merely
a figure of speech. I know what a real type rating is.
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