Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
The only time I really used it was on my solo
x-c and the practice was set it for the first
airport, fly there do my three landings at that
towered airport, land over at the edge of the
runway set the next airport, fly and repeat for
the homeward flight.

My LORAN has quite a bit more features -- that I never use, of course...
From what I understand, you can set routes that consist of multiple
identifiers (airports, intersections, VORs, etc)... I have never even
bothered to try out this feature... My personal flying style is just to
be interested in wherever my next destination might be and upon arrival
there, use the "direct-to" feature to set it to go to my next destination...

The main thing I noticed was the lack of a CDI I would have preferred a
Nav/Com at the time. A nice uncertified 496 would have been great.

My LORAN does have a CDI-type indicator built into it... Basically a
vertical bar on the screen that indicates your desired course and
another vertical var that indicates your current position in relation to
the desired course... I find it interesting to fly the LORAN CDI
indicator and use StreetAtlas to draw lines between my source and
destination airports and then log my GPS data for plotting over this
after the flight... I get to see all the deviations that I make either
from distraction, weather, traffic, or because I saw something
interesting that I wanted to check out... On trips, I'll take this and
add it to my electronic log book of the flights...