Doing General navigation right now at the pilot school and thought, why in the world we needed to do these things, when we just use GPS. We're doing the exact same steps as he is doing in the video with the same tools in 2022. Guess analog never gets old :-) Cool video that relit the interest!
I would love to know how single seat fighter pilots navigated from carriers in WW2. No fixed departure or return point. No fixed visual references at sea. No dedicated navigator on a single seat plane. No alternate runways at sea if you miss your carrier. Unknowns such as course changes during dogfighting.
My dad flew off the Yorktown. They bombed Tokyo and he had trouble with his plane. They left him . He flew low over house tops and made his way back to the carrier, he and his gunner
my papa was a very nice pilot of chinese air force and world war...i love your film you solve my 60 years wondering.. this scale is the most interesting and strange scale...computer i see
Google can navigate that in just a matter of seconds, and you won't be needing a paper map, pencil, drawing compass, set of radios, anthena, radar, etc.. just a single device and we call it "Smart phone".. I'm lucky to be living in this generation where everything is just so easy to access and easy to do with the help of this days technology.
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Doing General navigation right now at the pilot school and thought, why in the world we needed to do these things, when we just use GPS.
We're doing the exact same steps as he is doing in the video with the same tools in 2022. Guess analog never gets old :-) Cool video that relit the interest!
GPS can fail. Its always good to know the basics.
I would love to know how single seat fighter pilots navigated from carriers in WW2.
No fixed departure or return point.
No fixed visual references at sea.
No dedicated navigator on a single seat plane.
No alternate runways at sea if you miss your carrier.
Unknowns such as course changes during dogfighting.
My dad flew off the Yorktown. They bombed Tokyo and he had trouble with his plane. They left him . He flew low over house tops and made his way back to the carrier, he and his gunner
The also were taught celestial navigation by the stars
So complicated x,x I think I'll stay with my GPS, thank you.
This is admirable, hard work.
My love for history/aviation brought me here.
Thank you for sharing, I've wanted to see this for a long time, great.
his hand writing very beautiful
my papa was a very nice pilot of chinese air force and world war...i love your film you solve my 60 years wondering.. this scale is the most interesting and strange scale...computer i see
oh wow I did this when I was a C130 navigator. haha DR doesnt change
Did the Navy pilots use the same plotting board or something simpler since he had to fly the plane at the same time?
Notice the "+" and " - " on the back up the computer. We still did that in 1983.
thank you for your teaching
they are very busy to calculate...in the air
i should join the air force as my father
TVMDC+w-e
scale pregnant..in the middle with a half round since i was 6 years of age
how lucky i am
Google can navigate that in just a matter of seconds, and you won't be needing a paper map, pencil, drawing compass, set of radios, anthena, radar, etc.. just a single device and we call it "Smart phone".. I'm lucky to be living in this generation where everything is just so easy to access and easy to do with the help of this days technology.
Noobmaster69 You are lucky! Until the connection drops out at 5000 feet in poor visibility. Then you’re either lost or dead. 😵