You are not answering my question. You are just repeating yourself, with the same dead reckoning bs (and condescending tone). You are advocating to take an
unprecise starting point, apply an
even more unprecise methode, to find a point that ATC expects you to overfly with
great accuracy. Great airmanship!
Personally I would be professionally ashamed to ask for ATC help to navigate my aircraft
Pride is a really nice quality to bring to an aircraft too.
It's not about being dangerous or difficult, it's about being
inappropriate. I would happily fly DR if the FMC fails when no navaids or radar coverage is available - hardly the case over eastern europe.
Sciolistes, thanks for the link. Yes probably not very useful when you go 8nm
pr. min, and again like DR too much of inaccuracy. And when starting to turn 30 deg off track to find an initial heading ATC it probably going to ask "confirm inbound XYZ".