T O F O,
Surely the "tactical" directional consultant worked out his own value for the targets course and speed, then compared it to the figures from the wet team, AEO and the other directional consultant before coming up with the compromise figure to be used by the system/whole crew and base future tactics on.
The compromise figure the "tactical" directional consultant settled on was of course the targets correct course and speed, AND WAS (COINCIDENTALLY?
) HIS OWN ORIGINAL ASSESSMENT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ENTIRE CYCLE!!
Happy days indeed - even happier when the seas were full of submarines, the aircraft full of DCS and the scruffs bar full of aircrew....
I'm with Party Animal on the issue of AEOs and cars though. There were however quite a few co-pilots I knew who spend all, and I mean ALL, their money on flash cars - the irony of driving a "babe magnet" in Forres and Elgin seemed to be lost on them!!!