True, Jay, but when the electricals fail, it's back to the MkI
eyeball, map, magnetic compass, and timepiece (you DO fly with watch
on, right?)

My first solo XC, I was on the second leg, looking out for the airport
- just SE of town, town's on the south side of a lake. Check the ET -
just about there, where the ^&T& is the field? The second hand ticks
over - I SHOULD be there NOW. Look out the side window (in a C-152)
and the runway is directly below. Made a believer out of me - plan
the flight, fly the plan.

Recently went out to do some grass-field work on the day after a snow
- even in the pattern the field was hard to see! (Yes, it had been
plowed.)

Corrie

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:8NGBb.496070$Tr4.1350042@attbi_s03...
Mistake discovered near XYZ pattern (runways obviously didn't match). ABC
tower (still in radio contact) notified. Then XYZ tower contacted,
mistake
acknowledged, and profuse apologies offered.

I believe you have described the scenario that explains why moving-map GPS
has taken over the cockpit.