Originally Posted by
gums
Salute! ... Beats hell outta non-directional beacon we used long ago. You know, ADF. Hell, imagine Spaz flying back to his Oz boat without its TACAN working! Gums sends...
Poor old spaz thot TACAN (Mk.1) was magic. Aboard HMAS Melbourne
It was the FIRST installation in Australia. Being earlier a Vampire/Sea Venom pilot, ADF was our only beacon ashore. "I knew where I was at all times because I knew where I WASN'T" :-) IF TACAN (also installed at NAS Nowra by the time I got there beginning of 1969) was not working
onboard then the magnificent & reliable radars & directors did the trick backed up by our mental NAV one would hope. :-) Then TACAN was not that of later versions and not used for approaches. Night carrier approaches were via CCA to one NM using a SEA VENOM radar mounted up high aft onboard 'the warb/war canoe' then visual via the mirror.