I use char cloth to make fire with flint and steel only when I'm "showing off". On actual camping trips, I flick a bic which is what the frontiersmen would have done if they had one. I carry a film container with vaseline soaked cotton balls for my "sure fire" tinder, but rarely use that either. I can usually find birch bark or some fat pine splinters at my camp sites and the carried tinder is just an emergency backup as are my waterproofed matches.