Originally Posted by
Tynecastle
Whats the big deal with spurious fire warnings, the good old 61 and Pumas had them on a fairly regular basis, but it didn't make front page news in those days, think this was the main reason that cockpit mirrors were installed on both types.
ISTR that the Sea King mirrors were fitted so that we could check that the gear was down & locked, having had some sort of instruction to always 'visually check' as well as two greens. Somewhat tedious, getting a bone dome out of the sliding window to look down to see if the wheel was still there
After years of operating without mirrors, it was treated as a bit of a joke when they finally appeared on the scene: about 1973, I think
