[unionemployee]

Ugh. Aviation before, say, 1990 was amazing. Still necessary to do things like ground speed checks, non-radar approaches, VOR to VOR, etc. Real pilot sh*t. And lots of the equipment going back decades was still flying. An amazing time to be a pilot. Now everything is so optimized and dumbed down. I was born too late.

[nohankyou]

Exactly, I love pre-glass instrumentation. I still fly DME arcs manually all the time... in flight simulator.

I have flown gliders though, which helps avoid excessive technology.

[unionemployee]

Ha. I did fly a real non-radar DME arc in a PC-12 using just the bearing pointer...once.