In aviation we still use VORs and compass headings. GPS is no doubt a major player now, but I personally don’t find it reliable enough to trust my life. Even when flying using GPS, there is always a secondary navigation happening with headings and VORs.
As a sailor, I’ve taken to navigation the old fashioned way. Too many of us get used to GPS and rely on it. I’ve seen sailors ground their yachts on sandbars and complain that their GPS-based chartplotter had the area marked as X ft. deep. There’s something to be said about common sense and visual cues.