The single most embarrassing "Lost" situation I had was many years ago whilst undergoing a Navigational Flight Test to revalidate my PPL.
I was under examination by the Club CFI and whilst the first part of the examination route went reasonably well, I suffered significant brain fade after the first waypoint and became severely disorientated somewhere over Cheshire. I put in place the lost procedure and picked a ground feature about which to orbit whilst I got a fix. At the time I was working in the water industry and by chance had picked the water treatment works at which I had been working that very morning. Did it do me any good? Nah!
Examiner said "Right then, where are we?"
"Hurleston" I replied, "site telephone number 01270 blah blah blah, guy in charge of the site is John Lightfoot blah blah"
"Show me on the map" says examiner. "Cant. Let's go home" says I.
Examiner / CFI set us on track back to Barton where I landed with a huge red face and contemplated my future in aviation. That was around twenty years back and I still receive the occasional ribbing by test from our former CFI.
