And middle east 500 mile leg with no radio coms with center, no nav aids, no GPS.
Found out later israel was practising bombing Iran.
Round djibouti its an all to common occurance. I presume the west coast is just as bad.
Folk don't believe me when I say I used to think the theory was a pile of useless crap but 12 years on quite alot of it has turned out to be useful.