Originally Posted by
Human Factor
I remember flying with an ex-Phantom driver who talked of intercepting a Bear at night, needing to get the airframe number and flying somewhat adjacent to both inboard props in order for the nav to get the number from underneath using his torch!!
Is that feasible?
One dark night in a Shack the F4 parked himself between port inboard and port outboard to look for a suspect oil leak on the port inboard. Unfortunately, not being a QRA jet they did not have a very powerful torch. Also, the pilot flying the aircraft had to get the nav to use his torch, the aircrew torch with a beam length of about 6 inchs.
Yes, agree, not just feasible, absolutely true.