Lost?
It seems that this post was put up by accident from 1975.
Surely no-one has any excuse for getting lost in 2002! A simple GPS can be bought for not much more than an hours flying and one with an aviation database is only about double that. How can anyone afford to fly and still not have one in the bag "just in case". If you get lost then you have to rely on a rather primitive method during which you may infringe airspace or run low on fuel. I would never use anything else as my primary method of navigation but if you want to use a stopwatch then go ahead but keep a GPS in the aircraft .