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Old 3rd Jan 2021, 04:54
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Motorola
 
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Fiji Air. A good weekend's work was Suva-Nadi-Funafuti-Tarawa, overnight, and back the same way next day. 2 pilot but no autopilot and no SELCAL. Every night that it rained, the leaky nose cover and electronic PCB's had to be removed and dried with a hair drier. Most important PCB's were the Litton brand LORAN, ADF and DME. Funafuti used to switch their AM broadcast transmitter on for arrivals. It was a relief to get a DME lockon.

Our AFTN was still being sent from Funafuti to Nadi by morse code.

Ahh the things we did when young!



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