Great thread - I have my dad's log book from his RAF career from 67-76. I've spent many an hour looking through it and wondering what on earth half the entries mean.
Some are quite straight forward, but others....
Some examples -
June 16th 1970 - (29 sqd) -Lightning T5; Combat with 104 g's
August 11th 1970 - (29 sqd) Lightning F3; GH & aeros (I assume GH is general handling)
Oct 1st 1970 - (29 sdq) -Lightning F3; AAR+S7A+PD ?? 2h40 long flight for a lightning
During Dec 1970 - 3 trips have 'Profit' one with W3E
Feb 1st 1971 - (29 sqd) - Lightning T5; AAR Sub PI's s7B+Viz
is AAR - air to air refuelling??
April 71 - a couple of 1v1, Q scramble, combat and lots of FvF and in May 1.3-headon
Think he was in Cyprus July 71 as the return flight only is shown - 5 hours, during the trip did some Buccaneer Affil 's
August 71 - F3 Lightning - TGT for shad shep; another just says Coffee
Jan 25th 72 - F3 - V3A DNCO Birdstrike
April 72 - F3 - Standoff Profile & conventional profile
June 72 - Ex Sandmartin
While on 2(T) during 73 codes include - LLPI's / R86/R84/R69/TGT/PD Mar/S7E+Vis+evas!/opex 1a
While on a CFS course at Valley in 74 - Manual give/manual mutual/manual give back/unlock/unlock mutual/MLT give/MLT mutual
Nite fam 4 (yeuk!)
Clarkson Trophy aero's 1500 (lost)
Dec 75 (4FTS) - Gnat - Ex7 DNCO control rest
Really enjoy looking through and trying to figure out all the codes.