Ah the piper arrow. Fond memories of many trips around florida and caribbean in that plane as a kid. It was my job to "help" with the navigation, using a paper

Ah the piper arrow. Fond memories of many trips around florida and caribbean in that plane as a kid. It was my job to "help" with the navigation, using a paper chart and VOR/NDB steam gauge instruments. Dad was able to teach 10yo me how to do this stuff, but it was easy to confuse from/to or think you are tuned to station x when actually you are on Y, etc. Particularly night VFR was hard to be sure you were exactly where you thought you were. We did not fly over open water at night. Later we got a primitive GPS, no maps just waypoints and lat/lng. That thing was so much easier to use it was night and day. Just dial in a 3 letter code for your airfield, and you get range,bearing,eta. GPS is a huge improvement to safety and convince, but if it goes out a night or in bad weather there are gonna be some problems.