Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
I'm very much with Sir Francis on this.
The majority of places I want to go to have a road / railway / river / canal / something to it from somewhere else.
So - rather than fly directly to my destination, particularly if it's difficult to see, I'll fly to intercept the line feature one side of it, and turn towards it. That way, finding the destination is far far easier.
In the early 1960s when there was still a lot of Club flying to and from Luton, the newly opened M1 motorway was a real help when finding the place. You only had to know if you were East or West of the motorway so that you could fly towards it and, when it appeared, its colour told you if you were North (tarmac colour) or South (concrete colour) of Luton.