Air Clues Spring 2015 : Now Available

[CoffmanStarter]

For those interested ... Issue 15 is now available ...

http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/6547C11A_5056_A318_A8E29A8B2A7F8407.pdf

Best ...

Coff

[glad rag]

There's some really good stuff in this issue, blast from the past, however, rocks :ooh:

[Fitter2]

I see my (very) old friend Winco Spry is concerned about the collision risk with HAND gliders.

While hang-glider pilots are just as concerned, a bit of balsa can't do much harm to a Typhoon, can it?

(Proof reading services available at low cost)

[vintage ATCO]

Thanks, always enjoy reading Air Clues. However, aren't the bold paragraph headings in the yellow box on page 28 "Altimetry System Error" QFE/QNH transposed? And I thought QNH assumes International Standard Atmosphere. The pressure corrected for temperature (and used by meteorologists) is QFF.

When I were a lad we use to read the pressure from a Kew pattern barometer and apply corrections to get QFE/QNH. Occasionally we had to calculate QFF for the Met Office and had to take into account OAT.

Haven't done altimetry for years, Need to lie down now.

[CoffmanStarter]

That's a bit embarrassing :eek:

Along with the wrong TLA for 'Flight Technical Error' on the diagram page 29

[John Eacott]

Nearly as embarrassing as the Blast from the Past consistently spelling hangar with an e.

:p

[MPN11]

I found the article on ATCOs at Leeming retaining currency rather interesting. It was always a problem in the days when we had NCO Local Controllers who couldn't work in any other position, so the rest of Tower never got a chance to control up there unless an NCO went on leave.

I got badly burned at Tengah on that, when I found myself in Local after an absence of about 12 months ... a very busy day, and within an hour I completely lost the 'picture'. IIRC I had about 8-10 in the circuit, and had to ask everyone to just fly round the circuit pattern while I worked out who was who.

OC Flying* wanted my head on a plate for that one, but fortunately SATCO convinced him that it was 'justifiable incompetence' due to lack of practice!

* Subsequently an ACM