No, no GPS - but to be fair, this is an area I know well enough to take people up and give a tourist spiel. I even found it pretty recognisable when I did my night rating.
What I find so interesting is that even though I had 433 dialed in on the ADF, shown well to the SW and the Bovingdon VOR showing to the SE, none of this fitted my slightly beffuddled mental picture and I was unable to interpret the information correctly.
I really rather like radio navigation and have been perfectly able (in stiller conditions) to get a rough location fix from two radials. What was facinating yesterday was how difficult, under tiresome conditions, I found it to perform some of the simpler tasks.
The nearest comparison that I can draw is trying to read the instructions to a stereo while on a fairground ride. The words are English, it's just not possible to understand their meaning!
What was at the forefront of my mind, the moment that I admitted to myself that the picture was all wrong, was that i needed to make the call to 121.5 before I pitched in the London or Luton CTR.
Whilst Andy Warhol predicted that everybody would be famous for 15 minutes, this seemed like the wrong reason for my 15 minutes...