Originally Posted by
bast0n
Dear old Dalek!!
I like this chumley address!
The airmanship that I refer to is not breakfast/crew duty time/planning/radio calls and so on,and other irrelevant,to me, data.
What I stated many moons ago was what happened once they were airborne.
Simple things like starting a stopwatch on the dashboard as a "run in to coast warning" as a backup to the starwars nav system that I understand they were not too happy with.
Have you a shred of evidence to suggest they were not using maps marked with distance and TTG to back up the 252 which was SOP during my time on SH
Gosh if I mention DR backup I will bring lots of modern aviators down on my back again, but I flew the Seaking 4 with Tans and always had a backup running in my mind and on my knee pad. Is that so wrong? It certainly stopped me running into the Caradon Hill mast.
Also SOP along with a Decca map during my early single pilot Puma days
Ploughing on - thumb in bum - in worsening weather/vis/snow/turbulence et all relying on the dodgy black boxes that the crew knew about does not seem to me to be a sensible course of action.
Can you confirm how you know this to be factually correct
Approaching the coast, as I have stated before, is a high risk business if the weather is starting to turn against you, and that moment when it is turning to rat**** is so very difficult to judge.
I am sorry to admit that I always chickened out early, slowed down, descended, hover taxied et all until I could clearly see the beach/cliff/ship/what have you.
It's not called being chicken it's called AIRMANSHIP.
I am still here. Not because I am clever, but like all sensible aviators I am nervous.........................
PS why can we not have a spill and grimmer checker on this sight?
You have not a shred of hard evidence to support your assertions which because you appear to be a very clever and articulate individual has me so bemused.