Originally Posted by
212man
I think in those featureless terrain scenarios the SOP is to deliberately track left or right if the target, so that when you hit the line feature you can turn appropriately and be sure to find it. If you try and aim for the target, chances are you’ll miss and hit the line feature but not be sure which side!
Very true, I found that I could intercept the dirt road some 15 miles west of the target and then follow the road until reaching the feature. But even then, up there, one dirt road looks just like another, it just might be 10 miles short or past the dirt road you are looking for, and also tracking East to West. It was more difficult due to the completely feature region you were in.
Very similar conditions in the Libyan desert when flying to the Wadi's in the sixties.
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