Have we stopped teaching VOR skills?

In article , William W. Plummer wrote:

What has emerged is that there are two skills to be learned: Instrument
flying and GPS operation.

Exactly.

My choice is to do the former in the plane
with an instructor and the latter on the ground with a manual.

You pretty much have to play with the GPS on the ground. RTFM and
run the sim. But that's generally not enough. Unless you're really
using the GPS in flight, and even if you're particularly imaginative,
you won't come up with enough scenarios.

How many people here have had an approach controller tell them to do
a right 360 to *re*join the localizer? It only happened to me once.
How many buttons would you have to push on your GPS?

This is a very good idea for a workbook or training softwa unusual
GPS scenarios. Most of the oddball things occur in the terminal
areas, but even enroute, reroutes happen.

BTW, if I could do one thing to improve the interface on the sims,
instead of clicking to turn the knobs, I'd have you drag the mouse
to turn the knob.

In fact I do quite a bit of "Geocaching" using the GPS to find hidden
treasure. And after a year I'm still finding out stuff about the
simple little Garmin 12.

If the simple one has so many surprises, the more complex moving maps
are going to have that much more.


Morris