Ammo availability during training
Hi Cliffnemo,
Thanks very much for your comments about the loaded state of the guns during training flights - it does indeed make very good sense that they should have been loaded just about all of the time. Interestingly, there may perhaps be just one occasion when they might not have been, and that is during the first familiarisation flight at LFS when just the trainee pilot and his instructor seem to have had the Lanc to themselves. I can only think that the route taken would have been comfortably inland.
Re. streaming a drogue and taking pot shots at it; sounds like a lot of fun. (Did pilots get a chance I wonder, if their FE could take over for a few minutes?) Were extra points awarded for hitting the HF aerial ballast weight?!
Thanks again,
Cheers,
Dave