"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
Those days are long gone, thanks to moving-map GPS. (Well, and 1500
hours of experience.)

I think LORAN did a pretty good number on it even before your moving map GPS
came along... Even if you don't have a graphical depiction of your area on
your navigation device, just being able to plug in an airport's identifier
and knowing it's bearing and distance (no matter how much you got distracted
by checking out the things on the ground) did a lot to take a lot of the
effort out of navigating... Yeah, I've done my share of paper maps and
mapping my position in relation to VORs, but I've learned to enjoy having my
LORAN and letting it tell me how far I am from the various airports, VORs,
waypoints, etc... Combining that with a handheld GPS or moving map on a
laptop and for my flying, it's plenty of redundacy... Well, that plus my
probably out of date paper maps... grin