On Friday, March 6, 2020 at 9:59:00 AM UTC-5, wrote:
Eric thanks for the reply. In my mind they are both somewhat related. Safety and the changes in soaring, soaring practice and competition go hand in hand. Also sometimes the introduction of new technology has unintended consequences as we see being discussed in some of the other recent threads concerning the use of tec and cheating.
Dan

I've been wondering how to teach the new XC pilots in our club relevant but mostly-lost skills such as pilotage and map reading, since they start right out with moving-map glide computers. I've resorted to, at least, generating some discussion about ways in which the computer can be wrong (or set up incorrectly, or misinterpreted), and how to sanity-check what you think the computer is telling you. Of course, that sanity-checking requires some independently acquired information, such as looking out the window at the ground.