Originally Posted by
oldbeefer
SHY - I think it was 75 when I did the first trials on Mk 1 PNG with Barry R in NI. I had goggles that could only see outside. Copilot had no gogs and could see the instruments with normal cockpit lighting. So, crew cooperation was fairly demanding as I had no idea of any flight parameters, relying on a commentary from the other seat. This was transit flying and large field landings only. Scary stuff as the images from those early models was not that good (ie dreadful)!
OB, Now you mention it, I think our trial aircraft didn't have ELPs either so I would have had to rely on (almost totally dimmed) white lights on the instrument panel. IIRC, ELPs only came along a few years later when squadron crews began training on NVGs.