bring back pressure pattern long range navigation
Bah humbug! It might have worked on Stratocruisers at 20,000', but with jets, it is no more than "where is the jetstream? Either a) get me right into it, or b) keep me as far from it as possible!"
Additionally, anyone for Loran A?
Loran A? You young whippersnapper!
Real pilots would do it on Consol only, and recognising familiar waves at 56N 30W.
As a matter of interest, it wasn't so many years ago I used to listen in to this old German U-boat long range navigation aid out in the Atlantic. Transmitted from Quimper, Brest, and I think Vigo, Spain into the 80s I believe. If the Spanish were transmitting this during the war, why didn't it get blown up 'in a mysterious explosion' one night? Anyone know?