Originally Posted by
Fareastdriver
Once seated the LHS pilot had another useless piece of kit called Orange Putter. This was supposed to warn you of aircraft approaching from astern. In all my years of tanking it never picked anything up.
If it did ever lock on to an aircraft astern wasn’t the blip thing supposed to sprout ‘wings’ at one nm range ?
I remember it was tested in the air by firing a Very cartridge full of window/chaff which did show up on the screen !