Re: Meteor Accident Statistics
Bof
I am operating at the limits of my memory here, but my figure of 200ft min for a GCA probably assumed a Master Green card. The ground kit was superb (American, I believe) and the operators were specialists who did not double-up in Approach Control like they did later with ACR7/PAR. As I remember it with GCA the precision ("talk-down") controller would warn you that you were approaching minimums and then keep talking in an advisory capacity. The Meatbox was ideal in the approach configuration. Drop full flap approaching the glide-path, set the speed at about 125, vsi at about 250 fpm down and revs at about 11,000 depending on the wind (I would not argue over these settings!), trim it out and RELAX . Glosters did the rest.
The ACR7/PAR was coming in when I was at CFS in '57. I thought it was in every way an inferior system.