You should have heard the Approach Controllers at Driffield and Middleton in the bad old days, when they had to cope with several aircraft on QGH at once - particularly before they got CRDF and had to get the QDMs by squawk-box from a manual homer. We took our hats off to those guys! Incidentally, QTE was the True bearing of the aircraft from the station. "They" would not put ADFs in the Meteor or Vampire because Fighter Command, who laid down the policy, only operated within an elaborate fighter ground environment (unlike MEAF and FEAF). The RAAF Meteors sent to Korea were, I believe, fitted with ADF. If the RAF aircraft had been, quite a few aircraft (and lives) might have been saved.
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