Certainly the V-force astro skills were, in the main,
vastly superior to those of certain VC10K navigators....
Chaps such as
Tengah Type could plot the aircraft's position within half a heartbeat to a very high degree of accuracy at any time of day or night. Whereas others, shall we say, didn't have
quite the same level of 'TLAR' instinct and years of navigational witchcraft without the benefit of devices such as TACAN or Omega.
Mind you, it was said of 'Animal' that he'd use astro for taxying in the Tin Triangle, given half a chance!
Joking aside, I wonder whether there's anyone left in the RAF with the level of specialist navigation knowledge that was relatively commonplace 15 years ago.... GPS is great, but if it all goes tits-up at the wrong moment....
