In article ,
Alan Gerber wrote:

Guillermo wrote:
(D) That involves the use of dead reckoning, pilotage, electronic
navigation aids, radio aids, or other navigation systems to navigate
to the landing point.

I'm having trouble understanding why this part is in the regulation. Is
it merely stating the obvious, or is there some other way of navigating
that isn't covered by this?

... Alan

Vectors.

Also, a strict reading of the regulation would say that if you just take
off in a random direction, wander around totally lost for an hour, happen
to find an airport by pure luck and land, it shouldn't count as X/C time.

I suppose if you're flying formation, only the lead would get to log X/C
time.