Remember the Nav Leader on my first squadron talking of how he'd gone UK to Nairobi in a Canberra B2 with nothingmore than a 12 stud crystal UHF radio. Seemed to work as he made it there and back.
Personally - I always used the force; except when it was even slightly tricky when I just instructed the nose gunner to follow the tanker (Victor K2 that is!)