walter (still in OZ!)
Not quite up with your banter old man, but should all those RAF (and RN!!) pilots out there admit to their
use the DME function of the Machrihanish TACAN for getting up close and personal with the Mull
it would be more likely to hinder the case rather than
the pilots be rightly cleared
It was a VFR flight after all, and the DME, even if it had a signal in that location (which I doubt), would only ever be a secondary source of nav info.
It's just another blind alley. The real point is still that the RAF broke its own rules by coming to a finding without a shred of credible evidence.