Now that's ballsy flying (;-)): single-engined over the wilderness
with changeable weather, bears and flies!
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 22 Dec 2005, at 05:38, Mike wrote:
>>
>>
>> Lighthouses are extremely useful for 3 reasons: you can identify them
>> from a distance on the radar; you can see them visually, also from a
>> reasonable distance (day or night) to confirm that you have
>> identified the right radar return; and they are next to the sea, so
>> you can use radar altimeter ranging to update the aircraft's height
>> channel, an essential part of weapon aiming.
>>
> Chris, They are also useful to aviation in another way. My mother-
> in-law
> used to do a lot of flying around Alaska in float planes. The
> visibility
> tends to be bad going up the canals and there are high mountains going
> straight up from the sea so the pilots are going VFR. What they do is
> keep dropping to stay below the ceiling until they just set down and
> navigate in using the marine aids.
>
> Mike
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