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Old 20th Mar 2020, 01:34
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Strictly a two man operation.
One was wise to always carry a paper chart in case the Decca Scroll Map decided to come apart at the sticky tape joints.

Then it was all hands on deck....in a Single Pilot Helicopter...either a Wessex or S=58T flying offshore in the UK.

Keeping a hand written notebook of the Decca Coordinates of the various Rigs and Platforms was also a good practice.

You could fly one Arc using a Decometer and wait for the intersecting Arc of a different Decometer.

It actually worked quite well once you accepted you were using a rough equivalent of two DME Arcs with some rather different displays than that of a DME.

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