>
>I thought that you flew the C-130J, Chris. The Brit version of that had a
>large HUD; a colleague of
>mine was one of the early RAF pilots, so I heard plenty of stories about the
>new machine (whether or
>not I wanted to :-))
>
I haven't even seen a C-130J in first person yet, and I'm very pleased to
now hear that HSI was added. They were many years after my time. I did get to
fly a number of C-130H direct from the factory. They were delivered with the
AOA (angle of Attack) circuit breakers pulled and disabled with wire-ties.
Pretty worthless piece of equipment.
>I flew ADF procedures only during training on the Hunter, which had no other
>navigation aid.
>Fortunately, the instrument rating did not include anything to do with the ADF
>as no other FJ aircraft
>was so equipped. Our instrument rating test consisted of a precision approach
>and a non-precision
>approach, one of which had to be limited panel (emergency compass and Turn and
>Slip, no horizon or
>main compass).
>
With high-speed aircraft such as the Hunter making a mistake on an ADF
approach could get you into serious trouble in a big hurry. Of course, when
that plane was first produced (1950s?) things were not quite as sophisticated.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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