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.