Originally Posted by
csucbrown
After I received my instrument rating I offered to act as a safety pilot for the guys at my school still working on theirs. On one occasion I was riding in a G530 equipped c172. While en-route the GPS gave us a big middle finger ("GPS SIGNAL LOST") and the student flying under the hood completely lost SA in a short time and wasn't sure what to do. He's probably not the first one its happened to.
Once I get my CFII I'll make sure to reproduce that scenario for all my students.
I suggest you just turn the GPS off for the first 20 hours or so. Then use GPS only every other flight until time for checkride prep.