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Old 7th Jun 2018, 00:10
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Originally Posted by Thomas coupling
Many years ago in the military, I did a tour on the SeaKing simulator for my sins (between jobs). I was teaching a weeks worth of sorties for the FGN (German seaking pilots).
I distinclty recall watching them man up prior to start and the Captain hooked his dog tags over the E3C compass binnacle protruding from the centre screen above their heads.

Hopefully non-magnetic dogtags?


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Old 7th Jun 2018, 01:20
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what's the difference between the E3B and E3C

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It's a US military part designation, SASless
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Confusing a Compass and a four engine Boeing is hard to do...even for an Army Helicopter pilot.
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Originally Posted by SASless
Confusing a Compass and a four engine Boeing is hard to do...even for an Army Helicopter pilot.
I know one or two Air Force pilots who might struggle with that difference.

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So the pilot took his dog tags off and hung them from the compass binnacle and used the "cup in bowl" compass as a very rough AI (spirit level) and used the dog tags as a fine tune AI.
If the tags leant right they would compensate and so on.
It meant they didn't exceed Vmax, or Vmin and they didn't exceed AoB and stayed relatively 'upright' until they broke cloud and landed.
How's that for improvisation!
It would work in the simulator, yes as a spirit level, but not as an AI in the real aircraft. A simulator is fixed to the floor and can't sustain any "G" so the dog tags would always point to the earth.
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