[BILL_C]

“Private pilot here, and GPS is a nice luxury, but not a necessity if you know the basics.”

Who needs jammers when you have ME in the right seat. Girl friend was flying, I was checking something on the GPS, about 50 miles from destination. With turbulence, I hit a button unknowingly, I had set a waypoint but I didn’t REALIZE it. When we started down for the field 10 miles short of the real destination I found out that a GPS in the airplane is great but like you said you still need to pay attention to the basics.

GOD, I’m glad my CFI wasn’t there!

[Myrddin]

I cut my teeth in a 1946 Aeronca Champ. Stick and rudder. Tandem seating. Tail dragger. Needle and ball. Altimeter. Air speed indicator. Engine tach. Fuel gauge. VHF radio. Dirt simple and primitive. My flight instructor was fond of doing side slips at night to dump some altitude without picking up speed. The first time he did that, I nearly needed a change of skivvies.