To be quite honest the two flights I did in the Viscount were a bit worrying for a fighter pilot...It seemed to me that both pilots were working like one armed paper hangers on the Germany flights. I particularly noticed the the two ADF sets had the old "coffee grinder" tuners and as a lot of the waypoints were NDBs they seem to spend a lot of time twirling these things on the overhead panel and it seemed to me that while twirling and listening for the signal from each beacon, they were rather "out of the loop".nigelb wrote:I can tell you, I would have been a little p*ss*d about hearing the change after studying those manuals. Still, you learned something new and I bet at the time you did'nt think it would be useful on the cbsim forums one day. ;-)
In contrast, the mighty Vanguard was new technology and crewed by THREE pilots. All aids were instantly tuned accurately by dialling up some digits and then could easily be idented...Remember, as a fighter pilot I had never had any nav aids and had always navigated with a map, so the big learning curve when changing to airline pilot was coping with getting the RMI needles to point at the correct beacons or VORs in good time as we snaked along these imaginary lines in the sky. Rather surprisingly I also seemed to find it a bit difficult making all the "position reports" to ATC, that were required at that time. :flying:
