when the UK was still using WWII type map tables and backwards writing with chinograph in the 1970s !
We we’re still using the plotting table in the well at Buchan into the 1980s. It proved useful in that briefing the TPO to ensure that every Hostile/X-Ray within 150nm of the coast had a fighter block beside kept the MC off your back - regardless of what was happening in the air.
To be true full the same thing happened in the RAPDS era when the fighter plot positions entered by Saxa Vord bore little relationship to reality on many occasions , but it kept the execs at 11Gp and HQSTC happy.
I had one 2 star call up and suggest we move the QRA fighter 30 miles west to cover an expected penetration based on where Saxa had parked the label whilst they did practice intercepts on polar traffic to keep their hand in and keep the Q crew from being bored…
Practice interceptions of civil aircraft
“Where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise.”…