When I started my IFR training at Redhill the end of 1976 we used G-AWMK - "Double India" was at ABZ I think. Both were unstabilised and the instrument panel was standard AB206 - IF panel in the "middle of the cockpit" and a raw ILS CDI (AVN210) and an ADF(KR85). How did we ever manage?
The fun part was taking up the hold at the GW or GE at Gatwick and fitting in in the ILS and NDB procedures with the big iron when it was quiet - which it seemed to be compared with now!
Des Sadler was our instructor and my compatriot was Mike Lightfoot (now flying B747-400 with BA - poor soul)
Sliding down the ILS the other night in Accra in my 28 year old S76 was just as satisfying - although give me the S76C++ to go to work.
The "box" was a converted Link Trainer with the all the bellows hissing and pissing whilst you struggled to sit on the "cone of confusion".
Good luck "Double India" you have served the industry commendably
UG
