Shepherd aircraft
We were sitting in the crewroom the other day watching the horizontal rain and setting the world to rights. Somewhere along the line we got on to talking about Frederick Forsyth's short story 'The Shepherd', and this led us on to the modern equivalent.
In the FIH (page 6 in the current version) there is a procedure in which, if you lose both transmitter and receiver, you fly a left-handed equilateral triangle and "watch for interception by a shepherd aircraft". Unless my rapidly fading memory is playing up, this procedure has been around for a very long time. But has it ever been used in anger?
Last edited by ACW599; 17th Nov 2006 at 10:46.