I took my private pilot check ride last summer. No digital was allowed, no gps. All my flight planning had to be done by hand on paper charts. I had to have my paper chart in cockpit and when he diverted me I had to find my new route by hand on that chart. Let me tell you it was awful. It was so hard to read and organize while flying a plane at 120 it’s in bumpy skies. That being said all my planning and navigation I do is digital. I keep a paper chart in the plane w me for an emergency. In the 1 year I have flown and owned my plane I have never used the ADF, or VOR for real world navigation. Only the GPS.
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