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Once someone figures out how to use all that invaluable data, it becomes
more than just a great navigation device. I am sure you will place emphasis
on all those NRST goodies to your students.

It's interesting that you say that. My experience teaching the box is
still pretty limited, but so far it's clear that the transition from
students wanting to dial in frequencies manually to preferring to look
them up in the database is a watershed event in their getting
comfortable with the technology.

At this point, I must have 30-odd hours using the CNX-80 and I'm still
learning stuff. Learning events seem to happen in one of two ways. One
way is I go to demonstrate something cool to a student and end up AFU
(the high-tech version of "watch this!"). The other way is a student
surprises me with a different way to do something that I only knew one
way of doing.

I've already added "OK, can you give us an initial vector while we get
the box set up?" to my ATC vocabulary :-)