[QUOTE=Party Animal;10428305]
[/QUOTE]I thought the usual UK method was to rip out all the perfectly good equipment, give loads of money to BAE to integrate an untested, questionable, mix of gear to get it to the proper level of UK content....
I understand the flight deck is being extended to fit in a navigator and flight engineer. Helps to give the bus drivers extra SA and capacity and keeps the TD in check when he suggests some absolutely stupid operation of the aircraft! ;-)
Hope not, there wasn't enough stimulation to go around when I was a nav on it. Trying to overcome excruciating boredom was the only challenge, there's just not enough work for four although it may have changed since '92 ,but I doubt it. Somewhere near the Balkans at oh-gor-blimey hours in the morning I woke then realised that at that moment I was the only one awake on the flight deck - not the right sort of memory.