What percentage of you out there use a handheld gps and / or
transceiver when you are intructing or just flying alone?

I'm not an instructor, but I remember seeing one of the lads at
Hampton NH sitting on a lawn chair by the side of the runway with his
handheld. Since the Cubs don't have radios, and since primary training
is generally done in the Cubs, I reckon he must have been giving some
kind of checkoff training to somebody in a Cessna.

The training here is very traditional, but it may include GPS by now.
(My own instructor is half-owner of a Cub, and when he flies alone he
doesn't carry a radio. "It's part of the experience," he says." I do,
ever since I had a close encounter with a twin flying straight in to
20.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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