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Originally Posted by Thomas coupling
(Post 10165433)
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? Nerd question of the month: what's the difference between the E3B and E3C compass ;) |
what's the difference between the E3B and E3C British CAA licensed were you? |
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
(Post 10167221)
Confusing a Compass and a four engine Boeing is hard to do...even for an Army Helicopter pilot.
SND |
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! |
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