Know what you mean Hawker750 - all that drama on the TV when you're equipped with GPS, turbine engines, Satellite phones, beautifully plumbed in extra tanks, digital fuel read out, weather radar..... Ahhh, "it's getting dark" etc
Certainly beats the old days - pencil, map, ruler, protractor, pistons, no comms, no radar, 45 gallon drums - take the tube out of one into the next one after a while - checking fuel levels with a bit of stick, running tanks dry to get every last pint out of them, weather reports three days old !
Aye, them were days !!