Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
I still have a brand new nav bag in my wardrobe. I had replaced the old one, because with almost twenty years of use, it had big holes in the bottom corners.
However not long after, I decided with three months to go signing up to another seventeen years as “Spec Aircrew”, that I’d really had enough of being a pawn in aspirational Chiefs of the Air Staff’s careers, so I gave up and took my 38 point option to become a civvie.
Never got to use the nav bag and stores wouldn’t take it back.
The CAA used to issue those nav-bags to ATC examiners,but at some time ceased to do so,as I remember a memo circulating,possibly around 1995,offering them for sale to anyone who wanted one for £10 each.