In my time at Wallop I flew the AAC AH1 Gazelles quite a lot - SPIFR, NVG, NOE, all without the aid of SAS (not fitted to AAC) but it doesn't mean it is a good thing - give me a proper 4-axis AP any day
Diginanain - oh no, you reminded me of the joys of the LWNA - double slew up anyone?
We got LWNA, GOA, hand-held moving map display the size of a large laptop that used hand-cut map sections manually loaded and indexed, and a hand-held BATCO decoder that needed both hands, all about the same time. Then AR5 came along.