Originally Posted by
SpazSinbad
For 'Danny42C' - yes 'half plus 2' sounds right. Had an e-mail stating the CMDR was at 12K so that would have been the turn inbound height. But he was at 2,000 feet over water descending turn into water I guess. And yes the descent was at steady RPM, 250 knots sounds right and very fast.
On previous page this thread 'RetiredBA/BY' enquires about Goblin engine and Vampire types. The quote was from the RAAF Mk.35 & Mk.35A Flight Manual - I would have to check if it was a variant of the T-11 but I guess it was. The RAN had some T-11venses - they were the ones with the instruments in different places along with the dual AH/AIs.
The RAAF manual says the engine is a Goblin Mk35:
Thanks for that. I asked because my old T11 notes differed from the RAN aircraft.
I was on the last RAF Vampire course at 8 FTS at Swinderby, so perhaps we had the latest impellers on our Goblin mk 3.
Don't remember much of a fuss about resonance.
After years of flying Boeing glass cockpit it's hard to believe we had such truly awful instrument panels and altimeters which might as well have been in Greek!