"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in message
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Dudley Henriques wrote:
I've NEVER been lost. I've been "temporarily disoriented", but NEVER
lost!!!!! :-))))



I wish I could say the same. I've been LOST.

When I was a brand new pilot, I did a night VFR flight from Rock Hill, SC
to Wilmington, NC... at least that was where I wanted to go. Having very
little TT (less than 100 hours), I navigated the same as I did in daytime
VFR. At least I thought I did.

Basically you just flew at about 100 degrees until you got to Laurinburg,
then turned another 10 degrees or so to fly down the railroad tracks
until you got to Wilmington. What I hadn't figured was that most small
towns look pretty much the same at night and I couldn't see the damned
tracks.

Anyway, I got to where I thought I should call Wilmington Approach to
report I was inbound for landing and said that I was about 25 miles to
the west of the airport. They gave me a squawk code and then radar
identified me.... about 18 miles EAST of the airport. The next landfall
would be the island of Bermuda.

Rather than test my swimming abilities to the max, I chose to take their
offer of radar vectors to the airport.

Embarassing, to say the least. I never again navigated by pilotage and
/or dead recconing at night again. From then on it was radio navigation
for me at night.

I was just kidding Mort; Like everybody else out here I've pulled my share
of boners along the way to be sure :-)))
Dudley Henrique

I've NEVER been lost. I've been "temporarily disoriented", but NEVER
lost!!!!! :-))))




I beleive the original quote belongs to Daniel Boone

can't say as ever I was lost,
but I was bewildered once for three days.