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Old 14th Sep 2017, 16:38
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blind pew
 
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BEA Airport info.
The set of three books we collected with the nav bag were route dependent. Iirc there was a volume for the med, another for the north (moscow and Scandinavia) and a third set which covered Central Europe. They all had the civil airfields and diversion fields around the British isles. Somewhere we had Manston as they had a foam carpet facility if we had undercarriage problems. Might have been in the Aerad supplement though which didn't have any diagrams..just numerical descriptions.
The books were roughly 10" x 10", an inch thick and spiral bound so that we could put them in our chart holders which were under the DV windows.
Not the best system as one had to look away from the instrument panel to read them.
My last lot used let down plates which one removed and clipped onto the control column.
The plog PDF have RA circled ..we had a system of hieroglyphics..RA was red adf..number 1 GA was green adf..number two..circled was identified...and an arrow was when it was selected and pointing as displayed. We out a line through when we finished displaying it.
On the left on the departure plog are a couple of flight levels..on papa india their initial clearance was iirc 5,000ft..they were cleared to fl60 just before the droop retraction. Many us believe that Key and Ticehurst were writing down the clearance when keighley selected the droop in as he mistook an non standard command from key to put FL 60 into the autopilot height acquire box which was adjacent to the droop lever.
Bit off the subject but..
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