Originally Posted by
MPN11
Ah, the joys of playing with the controls on GCA! On the old SLA-3C PAR, you could wind back on the gain control so that a VC-10 was reduced to 3 blips as it approached minimums ... nose, wings and tail.
Yes, I remember the first QF Charter B747 arriving at Butterworth and seeing it on the SLA-3C with the multiple paints.
At Willy we used to joke that the only way we handled the mass recoveries was to turn off the SSR and wind back the Primary to get a skinny 3 miles!
And the Boggies Bay (15) on the CPN/4 and having to open the door slightly to call "touch down" for Alfie Harrison at Amberley. as well as being the duty "wind in the CPs" controller.
MJG