Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:43 pm
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TLRippon wrote:
Who are these old guard types, I’m not sure I’ve come across them.
We teach to a standard set by the CAA, if they want us to change what we teach then they need to change the standard so go and lobby them, convince them that GPS is a better bet instead of moaning on Internet forums.
My last but one instructor seminar was run by AOPA in 2014, and led by a couple of very experienced, very respected, somewhat over 60, instructors who taught a session on navigation that made it extremely clear they regarded GPS as firmly secondary, and never to be used as another other than a backup in the cockpit, and never to be trusted. They are, or at-least five years ago were, at the top of the tree setting the instructional agenda.
I'm glad to say that my last instructor seminar, run by On-track in 2020 (and I'm looking at the handouts to remind myself as I type this) took a somewhat different approach and made it clear that traditional and modern means of navigation should be taught side-by side, and covered the potential problems with both.
So I'm content that there's a trajectory of modernisation, but unless a bunch of very senior instructors have been removed from the community in the last half dozen years completely, or have had a complete attitude change, I believe that old guard are still out there and influential.
G
I am Spartacus, and so is my co-pilot.