Originally Posted by
sycamore
N-star, the Sea-king may be `old`but many Navies/Air forces have used it for 50+ years .The radar has/had a 15/20 *degree blind-arc ahead,but using the appropriate techniques and good Crew co-operation that did not impose any limitation on crews ability to do IMC,or night IMC /NVG letdowns,even with ,in it`s earlier Mks a simplex autopilot/AFCS with full transition-down,hover/transition-up modes.
But then it’s still not appropriate to train with that tool for use of modern airframes where the radar work is conducted by PM and PF using CRM and backed up by crew behind with moving map/FLIR etc. The point is the suitability of platform and procedures being trained as a result. Who uses SK nowadays? Even countries in the east have begun scrapping them.