I lost this thread and it's taken me ages to find it again
Sounds rather like something a certain erstwhile VC10K navigator might have said about his track-keeping.
Dear old 'Admiral Zig Zag', of whom a captain once asked "Doesn't he know any numbers smaller than 20?" when being given yet another heading change on the Ocean. I also once queried the heading on an off-airways route in the US by asking "Shouldn't we be pointing at the other side of Lake Ontario - I'm sure America's on the left and we seem to be aiming at Canada?" "Err, oh yes. Come 20 left....
" He'd missed a waypoint, it seems.
His best effort, though, was to set off from ASI to MPA about 30 deg off heading....
A very nice, amiable chap who did at least admit he wasn't the world's best navigator and who always stood up for his chaps against daftness from above. But all the fun and mystery has gone now that the VC10 has a FMS nav display at the front!