When there was no GPS
It was a long time ago, in the early 80s, a flight from Khabarovsk to Yakutsk, for refuelling, and the end point of flight - the village of Saskylah.
The aircraft is military, carried medicines and other necessary cargo to the Saskatchewan Islands, and the pilots are not local.
While the plane was refuelling, a military assailant with navigation maps enters the squadron and asks, "Well, how to fly from here to the Saskatchewan?" So it happened that at this moment in the first squadron there were no strikers, well, everyone got stuck and remembered how to fly there on the maps with the help of a compass and trigonometric line - did not remember. We decided to call the former flightman of the north - the assailant is excellent. They call him:
It is good, Petrovich! Here the soldiers ask the way to Saskatchewan, explain by phone!
Forgive me, do not know! Write down, take off to the hangars, then reach the height of 4200 meters, as you get, you will see the mountain slightly left of degrees by 5-7, fly to this mountain, in an hour of summer you will descend to 1500 meters, and fly right into the mountain, as the link becomes, 90 degrees to the left, and there the strip can be seen.
This instruction still hangs in the first squadron.