We need an up to date way of saying “have the ability to read a map be that a digital or paper version” cos that's what it boils down to really. If you can't read a map then your route might as well be printed or overlaid on a roll of wallpaper.
I wonder how the original poster got on .... his last post was this :
... and he's not returned... should we be worried? Maybe his nav skills aren't as good as he though
Actually, I've just returned. I got following a bearing pretty accurately, but it was 180 degrees out. I followed a single bearing from Linn of Dee to Aviemore - but via the South Pole
Hence why it took me 11 months!
On a serious note, after much practice in the dark (in the Ochils) I came to the conclusion that any difference in accuracy due to compass type (assuming that whatever compass being used was of a reasonable quality) was irrelevant relative to the inaccuracy of stumbling around the snowy Ochils in the dark! Relating both beginning and end points of any leg to the map and ground - and having experience of doing so - Was much more important.
Of course, the excellent summer weather we had this year meant that I barely used a map, never mind a compass, between March and August. So I'm well out of practice.