Originally Posted by
airpolice
About a year later I was posted to Northern and didn't need one as the T82 tracked with store dots, then I went to Border and had to learn to write sideways, from both sides, on a huge flat top display. Writing backwards was easy, and I never had to do it apart from at Shawbury, but sideways...
So where at NRD did you record all the details of the tracks you were controlling? On a flight strip?
At ERD we used the on-screen chinagraph cross. C/s top left, heading bottom left, FL bottom right and Type top right, with store dot number at the top of the cross. Or something like that. The Assistant, IIRC, kept track [in parallel] on a flight strip with the same data, for subsequent filing.