Dominator2 wrote:
I also did Limited Panel UPs on the JP 3,5 and Hunter up until 1975.
As did I! QGH to PAR on standby instruments was such a joy in the Hunter, with its significant looping error. At least the T7A and T8B had the OR946 Gnat / Buccaneer / Lightning instrument fit though.
20 years later, I was still teaching them on the Bulldog (Height, Speed, 'g', Roll, Pitch) and with the unreliability of many GA aircraft AHs, also on the PA28 until 13 years after that. But our aircraft did at least have a proper turn and slip rather than the wretched 'turn coordinator'..
For complete and utter confusion though, try a Russian AH - the 'globe' remains parallel with the real horizon but the aircraft symbol moves...
They do have an excellent combined turn and slip and VSI though - as well as a combined 'g' and AoA gauge.
Some of us remember the frankly baffling Smiths Military Flight System fitted to the Vulcan, amongst others. Scanning that thing in any aggressive manoeuvring wasn't very natural - and as for the fixed card compass....
