Originally Posted by Jughead

Being an airline guy prior to going to UPT, I found it comical that the USAF taught/approved us "direct" to a fix, using DME, an RMI, and the bottom half of your pencil. In a T-38, doing 10NM/min.

I didn't explain that method very well. Probably about as well as my "directs" looked on a radar scope.

If you remember doing this, I guess you understood it, sort of.