Back in the days before fancy gadgets like GPS and wx radar all we had was 1/60 and clock and compass. You had DN VOR until you ran out of VHF range. DN NDB wasnt worth a pinch of cockey-sh!t on a stormey night. If you were off-track you plotted the last known radial/DME on your WAC (VECS and RNCs were useless as bulls t!ts). At night it was so bloodey dark only your 1/60 and WAC got you out of serious trouble. A good trick for working out where the imbedded CBs were was to tune the ADFs down to its lowest freq, listen to the loudest crackle over your head-set then look at the needle. It indicated the direction of the lightning which hopefuly was located at the centre of the cell. A lot of times it was a bolt from the side so unintended penetration of CBs were quite common. Scared the sh!t out of me more than once. But I always found a better ride through TS at 5000ft or below (minimum about 2000ft or the rotor would clobber you). This you could do almost all the time except if you found yourself over the Top-End "watershed" where TS flying below 5000ft was a bloodey dangerous idea!
Prop-wash dont speak too soon mate! Youve yet to have the full force of the Wet hit you in Feb and March. <img src="eek.gif" border="0"> Dec and Jan storms are only boredom-breakers!