MauleSkinner
Touchdown! Greaser!
I’m not sure I agree with that extreme, either. Kind of like saying you can’t use flight planning software until after your checkride…often the result is learning how to use it improperly.My wife's instructor told her no GPS use (not that we owned one at this point) while learning. The plane she learned in did have an old clunky VOR-DME RNAV in it. I had showed my wife how to look up the RNAV coords of the destination airport in the brown book and put them into the system. She did that one time with the instructor and he then restated the restriction NO RNAV PERIOD.
Students and instructors need to understand that unless you’re flying a bare-bones Champ, 40 hours is probably not enough to learn everything you should to be ready for a checkride or beyond.