Originally Posted by caz
If that was entered into the SuperTans by Flt Lt Tapper assuming it was the Lighthouse; then he entered an incorrect waypoint that he had neither planned nor checked. That is negligence. If the routing was entered by someone else then he was negligent because he failed to confirm that what he considered to be the correct waypoints had been entered.
- you really need to forget this 'waypoint/negligence thing'. We are talking about a low-level, VMC nav leg, with a known-to-be-inaccurate TANS. 'Precise' checked Wpts are not the way it is done.The 'waypoint' would have been 'on the Mull' and easily 'eyeballed' by the crew as such and GOOD ENOUGH for that flight (unless, of course, you are on WK's side of a precision IMC approach to a hillside LDZ?). Nor do we do it Baston's way, flying at night, IMC, ?below SA? towards an enemy coast - in snow - and using 'DR', heaven help us. Mk 1 eyeball it is as per standard. Timed legs it is as per standard. See the coast and turn along it as per standard. Exactly as per the HoL report said. They didn't. No-one knows why. That is the puzzle.