Trng to be USN Tacair NFO (think Goose, but better looking and not dead), got to do a recheck when went too far crosstrack, hoped a watertower would save me but obstruction symbol obliterated town name on chart…go figure. Expectation was time ticked stripcharts, hdg, airspeed, wind estimates all at 500’ over swamps and pine forests of SE in hot-rodded Citations, T-2/TA-4s would get you to an intersection of 2 dirt roads or a single wide.
Proudly winged and flying with new fleet crew from NW to Fallon NV on low level (420kias, ~200’), dutifully called out each two track rut or drainage cut, after a few minutes of my finest trng command narration my salty senior LT pilot said “give me the #%^*-ing chart”…looked at it, pointed 40 miles down range (about 5 mins ete), pointed at my turnpoint on stripchart (mtn peak) slapped me on the helmet with it and said “I think I can get there from here”…first of many clue-birds I found that tour…every once in a while I still find one.