PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Calling all ex-Wessex personnel
View Single Post
Old 8th Jan 2017, 18:44
  #27 (permalink)  
Xmit
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Oxford
Age: 65
Posts: 23
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Originally Posted by Geoffersincornwall
So much for pussycat 'twin-engine' Wessex drivers. REAL Wessex pilots cut their teeth IMC at 150 feet terrifying the life out of Russian submarines in the amazing Wessex Mk3. No electronic engine computers and only one donkey but our analogue AFCS was state of the art. Junglies.... Crabs ..... get a life. :-)

G
Agreed - but I think your analogue AFCS was a duplex system, unlike the supposedly more advanced Sea King!
Xmit is offline