Not operate - just take in the bearing and range data - by analogy, the HSI can get, say, data from a TACAN (via some other black boxes for now) but the radio system working off the TACAN is set up by the pilot - the data is effectively just routed (that is if it is connected at all which we still don't know).
I'll explain the role of the main nav computer in HC2 in some detail by PM when I have a little more time - v briefly just now, it would have to have the s/ware to recognise the data (as per all the other nav data it receives) - not to operate the unit, though.
And I have no idea about the HC2's equivalent of the 47D's HSI mode select panel (which has good descriptions in the public domain) - only that it appears (to the eyeball) to have a good many more options.
Again, for academic interest alone, it would be interesting if someone who was familiar with the systems would come forward to give us a functional description (excluding any sensitive bits, of course).
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