Originally Posted by
Geriaviator
Mind you, I think you're rather unkind to the Link which taught me a great deal. Fifty years ago two enthusiasts called Barney and Bill completely restored a WWII Link for our flying club and I spent many hours therein, the patient sighs of its pneumatic bellows matched by those of my long-suffering instructor as I wandered drunkenly around the "sky". It cost me 12s 6d per hour against the ADF-equipped Cherokee at £6 yes six pounds
and after its jerky response the real thing was easy. Well, less difficult.
As an ATC cadet on 27(F) Chingford Squadron I, too, haunted the Link room to hiss and sigh my way around in the hope that my track scratched out on the Crab would match that of the underlying map. 53 years ago and it was all for free and to a 14 year old would-be pilot, priceless
