Fail to see your point Party Animal. The AEO's valuable input there was was spot on and the result of a comprehensive training package that consisted of adding a little bit or taking a little bit away from the previous assessment, regardless of outcome.
Many submarines probably successfully escaped on a course of 368 degrees due to your closed and unimaginative mind......... It's inflexible attitudes such as yours that lost the fleet.
Who was the chap who on completion of a sortie wanted the pilot to "do a quick 360 and get the heck back out of here"...? Similar point to the mind of a great AEO, surely a 360 is twice as good as a 180, whereas you navigators choose to just destroy the greatness of the aspiration with mere mathematical fact.
Shame on you and, by default, all navigators past and present. No exceptions. And with the time here at 63 minutes past 2500 o'clock, time for a glass of red.