Reading through reddit posts I’ve seen some conflicting information on what people have experienced with their checkrides. Although most say it’s the last time they ever used an e6b. Some liken it to listening to vinyl. Is this related to the examiner’s age?
I’ve also been watching many YouTube videos with pilots going over the VFR maps on their tablets and it’s way more than what we get in the sim now. Like, there are VFR pattern entry routes!
But touching on earlier topics, we could experience technical failures or even planetary wide failures involving magnetic fields, GPS systems, EMP pulses, gamma ray busts from other galaxies, etc. that may necessitate basic dead reconning skills.