Recent content by Newboy6458

What Ol Will says. Similar things happen in other technical sports where you train for the exam and not real life as it happens to you. Is it worth while doing a brush up course and taking the exam on a school boat where the mandated technique is more feasible?

My point is technology itself is not the answer. Training understanding and operator competence in both normal and failure modes are still a prerequisite.

For those who are keen on using the aircraft fly by wire metaphor, I have very unhappy memories of my unskilled simulator partner struggling in the simulator on my (our?) Airbus conversion course ?????

Foreshore at Warsash very busy. Car park rammed and vehicles parked all over the place. Any keen traffic wardens could have had a field day. Jack and Dom did a roaring trade in bacon butties at WSC?

And here’s hoping Mrs Trellis isn’t a forumite.

No relationship with the business except as a long term customer but Staysure are offering covid cover add on for travel to Amber countries for holidays, including sailing cover.

Well if you’ve got an agenda to push.....

If you’re really interested in having a back up plan then back to basics nav log with pre calculated distance vs time based on best guess with forecast tide etc can’t be beaten. Going back to DR visual navigation in light aircraft trying to get the students to just believe in the basics was hard...

Hi Slowboat. I admit I missed the airways bit, but that clashed with my recall of operating into northern Italy. A quick chance at the Italian AIP for Turin and Venice show they still pull you off airways at co located NDB and VOR beacons TOP and CHI respectively.

Hi Sowboat, from your post: No NDBs are left in Europe and damn few if any in the Western world as airways beacons. There may still be a handful in Russia. Again in Europe some still exist as airfield approch aids but non-precision approaches using them are all but a thing of the past. Again...

Not flown an airliner since 2013 but our airbus fleet had multi mode receivers. The navigation computer was able to tell you exactly how it was deriving it’s fixes if you needed to know, but normally either Nav accuracy high or GPS primary was all you wanted to see. Regarding that particular...

As I said way back, for the technically illiterate it’s brilliant. For experienced navigators amongst us, other tools are available.

Surely the stupidity was putting such a person on the emergency desk with inadequate resources and training?

It’s here , now, and currently free. If it goes behind a paywall then I’m certainl human ingenuity will have a replacement equally capable within a short space of time.