HERDET HARDET PHANDET CHINDET SARDET
Some of us are old enough to remember the 'Dets'. An interesting event for me was recovering to Stanley at night when a Haulamatic bounced off the road, outside ATC, and rolled into a ditch. In doing so it cut the power from the ATC generator. We were at about 5 miles to go on the approach when the airfield was plunged into darkness. We overshot and held, eventually ATC called us on their battery powered UHF back radio to tell us what had happened. They then switched on the glim lights and we carried out a visual approach and landing.
Do we still have those basic back ups in place?