[ARC5] Navigation Use of Low Freq Command Sets

[Francesco Ledda]

VMC yes, VFR when ever possible. If IMC, most likely GCA to get home!

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On Apr 29, 2011, at 13:22, "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering? I have some cockpit photos of some early fighters and I see 
> no RDF gauge.
> 
> In Korea (1950/1954) we had ARN-6 radio nav sets in our aircraft. In the 
> fighters the loop was in the canopy behind the seat.
> 
> But they were not used during the war except for flights to Japan. All 
> flights were VFR!
> 
>> From sunup to sundown we had 2 aircraft on strip alert except during bad 
> weather. No one flew then in bad weather!
> 
> We also had 2 M-16 antiaircraft halftracks at each end of the runway. But 
> they were not manned at night.
> 
> "Bed Check Charlie" came through most evenings right at sundown!
> 
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
> To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:04 AM
> Subject: [ARC5] Navigation Use of Low Freq Command Sets
> 
> 
>> For fighter aircraft the 190-550 KHZ sets were used with the AN ranges and 
>> for receiving control tower instructions and thus needed no directional 
>> display or loop antenna.  And while the BC-453's were not installed in the 
>> fighters equipped with the SCR-522 in Europe it appears that the "Detrola" 
>> (generic name for the Detrola Model 438 and BC-1206-B and C sets) were 
>> used for LF beacon navigation there, based on pilots' description of 
>> navigation techniques.
>> 
>> Wayne
>> WB5WSV
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