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Autolycus
Was never fitted to the MR1 or MR2, it was however, fitted to the MR1 MCT although never used. Except, that is, when bored it could be switched on and when the paper moved and you could draw on it.
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Vague memory here, and I'm not suggesting it was ever switched on or used/attempted use, but wasn't the Autolycus switch fitted to the MR1? I seem to remember it being on a panel above jez?
Autolycus was, by the time I started flying, already a myth - usually referred to as a sensor for tracking <insert name of pipe smoking siggy here>
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Autolycus was, by the time I started flying, already a myth - usually referred to as a sensor for tracking <insert name of pipe smoking siggy here>
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Autolycus Switch
Like you Dave, I can't be absolutely sure of anything at my age, but I'm fairly sure you're right about the autolycus switch; I think I remember a check (Tac checks or after take-offs maybe) along the lines of autolycus/VHF switch to VHF. Or maybe that was just my crew winding me up.....again !
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No idea about operational use but we were removing the `outside bit' of the autolycus from 203's Mk 1's in Nimrod ASF at Luqa 75/76. Seem to recollect it looked rather like a ray gun of the time!
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The kit was fitted, and worked, sort of, in the early days of the Mk1.
The display, a simple pen/chart recorder was, IIRC, fitted between the two M1c Sonic indicator units.
If there was a televised air display and Raymond Baxter was commentating, it was always certain to get a mention.
Most homes have one today; the basic technology is the same as a Smoke Alarm.
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The display, a simple pen/chart recorder was, IIRC, fitted between the two M1c Sonic indicator units.
If there was a televised air display and Raymond Baxter was commentating, it was always certain to get a mention.
Most homes have one today; the basic technology is the same as a Smoke Alarm.
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we were removing the `outside bit' of the autolycus from 203's Mk 1's in Nimrod ASF at Luqa 75/76. Seem to recollect it looked rather like a ray gun of the time
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I believe Autolycus had been removed from the MR1 by the time I arrived on Nimrods but I recall a particular homing on a cruise liner while on 203 that was hopeless, up front we were watching the beast belching smoke while criss-crossing behind it, with only the intermittent autolycus in cry. It dawned on me the other day that not many subs had their snorts about 16 stories high Oh well, better 42 years too late than never
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Dimmer Switch - it was the "SARBE / Autolycus" switch, which IIRC was checked in the "Tac Checks Outbound" - I thought I'd taught you better than that!
The Autolycus equipment had definitely been removed from the MR1 post 203 returning from Malta, it was replaced by the 3rd Sonics set, giving us dry men a chance to monitor cold active buoys........
The Autolycus equipment had definitely been removed from the MR1 post 203 returning from Malta, it was replaced by the 3rd Sonics set, giving us dry men a chance to monitor cold active buoys........
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The Autolycus equipment had definitely been removed from the MR1 post 203 returning from Malta, it was replaced by the 3rd Sonics set, giving us dry men a chance to monitor cold active buoys........
Many crews had half a dozen b cats (real ones). Several advanced crews per sqn, even the odd select crew kicking around. Wet men did radios (and quite a few stood a radar watch). Dry men filled on 1C when short handed. The better AEOs could often do the lot (until GSU put a stop to that).
And if you didn't see a soviet, it wasn't a real trip.
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Ah, nostaliga's not what it used to be, is it?
Us dry men used to get on 1C quite often, in 807 at least, and Killer Davies (wet man of this parish) used to hop onto radios quite frequently, given half an ounce of encouragement.
Then the GSU made us all study amplifiers and telephone books (I assume that's what all those **** numbers were once Loral arrived) and a little spark of light died in the siggy world....
it was replaced by the 3rd Sonics set, giving us dry men a chance to monitor cold active buoys........
Then the GSU made us all study amplifiers and telephone books (I assume that's what all those **** numbers were once Loral arrived) and a little spark of light died in the siggy world....
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Ah , the GSU , otherwise known as the GRU. Those aces of the base employed to give destructive criticism. La creme de la creme , except when you flew as extra crew on one of their SCTs and got to see they weren't quite as good as they thought they were.
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That's true. Went as extra crew on a Medex in 1981 with the GSU - 7 or 8 A Cats on the aircraft. We floated around Hammamet for about 15 mins before somebody mentioned that the Altay we were photographing was, in actual fact, a Dubna (I'd spent those 15 mins puzzling as to why I couldn't "walk all day" on the Altay, but thought 7 A Cats can't be wrong....)
That was the same det that John Mill***k learnt about Kokkinelli at Chris's - Halcyon days!
That was the same det that John Mill***k learnt about Kokkinelli at Chris's - Halcyon days!
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Too many Switches
Thanks Sargs - I just chose to concentrate on becoming totally accomplished with the operation of my principal switch - all those other ones were just frills ! Stay warm and mind those frail old hips on this ice 
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The route nav, sharp as a tin tack, was in blues with an LSJ on and slumped over the Rnav table for the whole flight.
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Ah, I stand corrected. When I joined the fleet in 1973, Kinloss not Luqa, the Autolycus was not fitted to the ac and I was led to believe never had been (or maybe it was and I was told not to touch
.....but then surely I would have done!) It seems I was wrong, not the first time and certainly not the last.
.....but then surely I would have done!) It seems I was wrong, not the first time and certainly not the last.
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AQA, it was not taught in '74 either however I have a vague memory that 203 just might have had it based on the different atmospherics in the Med.
That said, just how long did a sub snort compared with a surface vessel? You needed to be quick catching a snorting diesel and would not have had very long to sniff about.
That said, just how long did a sub snort compared with a surface vessel? You needed to be quick catching a snorting diesel and would not have had very long to sniff about.