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Old 28th Jan 2013, 16:54
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Pom Pax
 
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"most beautiful dulcet tones"

I always believed the lady had a soft spot for us baby u/t navs.
Call station A for a true bearing (transfer bearing 2 mins up track)
Call station B for a true bearing (plot bearing) and then that helpful voice "Juliet Papa your true bearing from Silloth on your transmission to "B" was 085". Thank you saved 4 minutes work! Of course there was the downside if she wasn't on shift one had to do the fix correctly without getting your aural fix.
Slightly off topic when asking one of our veritable NCO captains to get a bearing from Culdrose the reply was "Nay lad use St Mary's the Airforce has to pay 2/6d for a civy bearing so when down here help the Scillies exchequer." Can anyone confirm this cost?
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