First visual approach method in IFR conditions one learnt in the olden daze hopelessly non-instrumented Vampires and Sea Venoms was this one (words from another Venom pilot before the end in 1971). I did a few of these myself but none so dramatic as described thusly: (lots of details omitted to protect innocent)
"...Another GCA, below bingo fuel, lost us again.... hand signalled to wingman we would do the old Venom let down. DR'd out to sea, climbed to 5000, let down on the pressure alt to 1000', then onto the radio alt till visual (about 100'), left turn onto 270, reached the coast around Crookhaven, up the coast to the Shoalhaven River, down the river to Pig Island, onto 213°. To stay visual we were down to roof tops over the town, eased over the golf course and plonked down on the numbers r/w21...." [fuel must have been nada]