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All that automatic stuff is for sissy pilots!

Call me sissy, please.  :D

VOR to VOR is great, but the online Controllers appreciate at least some ability to go for an intersection from time to time (at least for the Airliner guys), so my choice stays the also old (but too new for the original 727) INS then, where I can hack in some coordinates of somehow virtual (no station there) waypoints.
Yes, I could do some cross radial readings on the RMI, but that's a lot of work in busy skies (for me) and far away from accurate.
Also, the CS 727 needs a small update to get the FO's instruments working independently. Would be neat to have, the 707 shows how it's done.
Of course, the GPS would be in the newer and retrofitted 727s around and, in the sim, it also allows the very first steps into flying this classic plane.
While the FMC retrofitted variant sadly won't come alive in the sim, I personally can live with the not so original and "sissy"  :P GPS conversion from CS.
Most loved though? Going INS on her.  8-)

But learning VOR to VOR and all the things around it stays a tip in my eyes. Who would want to be fully dependent on a FMC together with a nice moving map all the time?
I'm having much fun when "guessing" my position with the steam gauges only and then seeing that I was right (or, sometimes, totally way out) about it when I connect the map for some seconds.


For the guys willing to learn and try some VOR Navigation, here's a neat site with an app on it, to "fly" your plane and then see how its position would look like on the instruments. http://www.visi.com/~mim/nav/
Looks small and harmless, but trains your mind if you are new to the thing like I am.