Herod, quite right. Al Bowman was at Goose when a Vulcan fell through the hangar floor. The crew was on board for a hangar start. Al, a Victor man and flt or sqn cdr, immediately got hold of the Vulcan captain and discussed the accident, thus disbarring himself from the BOI.

Where was Autoland when I needed it ?

Danny; men of your calibre didn't need it.

Agreed. OC Ops Stanley wanted me to be on the Board following a Sea King heavy landing/semi-crash until I pointed out I'd watched the whole event from start to finish from the tower ;)

We didn't have Autoland on the F3, but we did have Auto Approach; needless to say, we weren't cleared to use it, but suffice to say it flew a very respectable ILS approach, far more accurately and smoothly than moi......

57mm, ah, the military way, why do it easily when you can do it the hard way on the basis that the automatics may fail.

I can think of several other things that were designed to work automatically but we always did it manually just-in-case. Thinks, how much lighter, less complicated and cheaper if we left out automatics, say starting with George. :)