Some of you might recognise the old gent in the middle.
Who is doubtless explaining that old-fashioned bits of paper, such as that DOT sheet, are superfluous in modern tankers with well-designed, fully-functioning AAR mission planning and management systems....
Such as the A310MRTT / CC-150T Polaris.
But not the Voyager, whose MPS
still doesn't work, I gather....
Weird that - Airbus have had a perfectly good system in their A310 for many years now, but the Spanish are trying to re-invent the wheel. By making it square...
Hecho en Espaņa = No funciona!
It was indeed a good visit - excellent brief in the OM, trip in a TriShaw, then a look around both a VC10K and a Voyager. A pity that we didn't fly in the Voyager, which was delayed on an inbound trip, but our excellent host managed to come up with a good alternative.
See you at the dinner, haltonapp!
Nice interior shot of that VC10C1K, FL - strange to have been climbing in MAN mode with the turn control displaced like that though.....
31 Mar 2020 - and Voyager STILL doesn't have a functioning Mission Planning System which works!