Chinook
Yetti. Well, since you ask, over 4000 hrs, nearly all jet, low level, day and night.
But you specify VFR, and tell us that you 'neither knew nor cared at the planning stage whether you would pass through those turning points' If you played so fast and loose with turning points when IMC, then I'm glad I was not with you! The point surely being that this crew, on a VFR flight plan, flew into IMC conditions (20 yards vis said the lighthouse keeper; no vis at all said the party of hikers.)
As Flatiron rightly said, too many red herrings; and not enough sticking to the known facts.