No streaming in late 60’s
I got my Navigator brevet in 1969. The course was eight months on Varsity followed by four months on the Dominie. Despite the low level roles of Canberras and Vulcans, we were given no low level training whatsoever. With the introduction of the Phantom and Buccaneers into the RAF, this defect was immediately highlighted and some low level training introduced and then formal streaming commenced. I think this was in 1971/72.
My first tour was on EW training Canberras on which we did little low level navigation. We did fly some sorties at low level in the vicinity of the system to which we were giving EW training. However, navigating to and from was at medium or high level.
Next tour was on the C130 where I spent 6 years on Tactical squadrons which had lots on low level. All the tactical techniques were learned on the course run at Lyneham.
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