Stupid Newbie Pattern Question

What Jay said.

But I know the locals will know where the VOR is.

Problem is, the locals will also report their position relative to "the
tanks" or "the bridge", or "5 corners" or other such nonsense for
transients. Even ATC does it at some 'ports.

Try to play to both audiences?

Jay Honeck wrote:

It goes well beyond that. VFR pilots fly GPS direct, which totally
eliminates the use of VORs for navigation. (I turn my VORs on, once in a
while, just to see if they still work.)

In flight planning, I really couldn't care less where the VORs are, any more
than I would want to know where the NDBs, A/N radio ranges, or light beacons
used to be. They have *all* been supplanted by GPS in the VFR world, and
the IFR world is slowly (glacially?) catching up to the technology.