Originally Posted by
multipilot
Usually what I do is by their second or third cross country I'll take out the GPS cards and seal them in an envelope inside the airplane. That way I force them to rely on their dead reckoning and pilotage without the temptation of using that little direct button on the GPS. If they have to use the GPS cards I'll know about it.
Unless they take another envelope! Just an idea.
But I like your thinking we are becoming too handicapped by GPS. Of course that's probably the same thing they said about this new technology called VOR's way back when.