gatt writes:

Stare at a GPS display plugged into the cigarette lighter to view my actual
track, groundspeed, ETA, ATA and get other route information along a VFR
airway.

I thought the whole purpose of VFR was to look out the window.

After being in a 20-minute holding pattern in a cloud during my IFR
checkride, and then having the examiner look at his handheld GPS afterward
and say "Let's look at how well you held your racetrack pattern"...
*shudder*

That's after the flight, though.

My point is that however much computers and some other technologies
have changed or appeared, aviation has stayed very much the same.

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