I came off a pointy new jet onto a DC3 to get my first command. I had been fortunate to be trained at SEN in the days when we could do almost anything in any weather.
Finding myself in Norwich hollering out bursts of...well, anything really, to give the bloke a bearing, I had trouble changing from one type of bearing to another, until I started to imagine a huge arrow pivoting over the VDF centre and indicating the bearing on a giant compass rose some miles on the other side. Worked well.
Mostly for base-checks, but it's funny how much confidence it gives one when all the T/V screens have gone blank and your'e back to basics.