[Milsurplus] YE - YG considerations

[Al Klase]

On 11/12/2015 6:28 PM, Hue Miller wrote:
>
> .....What does it mean when this says the YE "is synchronized with a 
> gyro compass so that each letter is beamed from the ship on a true 
> bearing" ?
> I am missing what is "true bearing" ? The ship's not travelling that 
> fast that the plane can't follow the beam.
>
>
Hue,

The aircraft does not DF the beam. Rather, the Morse letters indicate 
which sector the aircraft is in relative to the ship, and the pilot 
flies the appropriate reverse heading to the carrier. Hence the 
transmitter and it's rotating beam antenna must be synchronized to the 
compass in order to be sending out the right information.

The beauty of the system is that a pilot in a single seat aircraft needs 
only to receive the Morse letters, consult his crib sheet-of-the-day, 
and fly the heading back to the ship.

Al

Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/