Exactly like that! Thanks Maxgrad.
HC. The 210's got autopilots? Pfffft! In my day etc etc........
The worst I ever did was set off out of Tindal for Tennant Creek one night tracking the wrong radial. Don't ask me why I did, only been doing the job about nine months at that stage so knew them all off by heart. Realised my mistake after an hour!! The BIGGEST 1:60 correction evAr
Sweat my ringpiece off for about 45 minutes before the Tennant VOR/DME came up
One of the guys confessed to falling asleep one night while southbound. He told me (over a beer at the 'tute) that he woke up facing the right direction but was "....f*cked if he knew how many times he'd flown in a circle"
So we had another beer
Then there was the night I was flying on top of broken cloud between Tindal and Tennant Creek again. Looked down and saw the moon reflecting off water. WTF!!!!! Time for the sweaty ringpiece again! Compass and DG tallied but I was out of VOR/DME range ahead and behind and was too poor to have my own GPS. I couldn't have headed north by mistake could I?
Turned out the desert was flooded. Now how often does THAT happen?
Ahhhh, the good old days
