Some Days....just how many are like that?
Funniest "Old Hand Advice" I was ever given on the North Sea by a leathery old Frenchman was "Never lose sight of the Water!", never minding I had not seen it since the Takeoff three hours before.
Those were the Glory Days of Single Pilot in a machine with only two axis SAS, monochrome radar, and Decca....no Rad Alts where Radar was on the MEL as being un-neccessary for flight.
Yes, we have progressed from those days.
Adding NVG's or something similar might just be a "Next Step".