[blackdog]

The first time I coaxed my wife into using my GPS was on a business trip she was on. She called to tell me she was lost. I told her to turn on the GPS and enter the home location. She selected an entry my daughter had put in the unit by mistake, titled Home-Vac.

My wife called me three hours later asking why she was in St Louis instead of Tennessee?

After using GPS and LORAN for decades, I'd be hard pressed to old school navigate in my plane. You get dangerously hooked to it's use.

[enraged]

Avionics is a whole different ball game I’m sure. I’ll stick to the terra-firma, and leave the airborne stuff to the pros!

Loran is still in use for navigation backup from what I’ve read. Larger vessels still run it just in case....?

I bought my aging mother (don’t tell her I said that) one of those cheap TomTom units, she called me and complained it didn’t work inside her house & how was she supposed to learn how to use it? I almost spilled my drink laughing so hard.