Good post, Blackdog. I might start using this method in the fighters. I find the DG is reasonably stable in the Blenheim but it drifts very easily in the fighters. I tend to use navigation in the fighters only when I am inland and can't see the coast or am mid-channel and very low.
A few weeks ago I was on ATAG, sputtering low on fuel in a hurri and approaching the white cliffs in as slow a descent as possible with the engine cutting out. I drifted in and had chosen a nice flat field for landing when I noticed flak around me. I thought there was someone on my six but couldn't see them. And then the realisation slowly dawned: I was landing in France with about a thimbleful of fuel remaining.
It is a good idea for red pilots to ensure they are heading west on the way home!
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