Yet another example of how the whole of the Air Force depended on chinagraph pencils.Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 7:24 amPN it was very much down to the Nav on the timing. He had to put us down to the second then it was up to the pilots. We marked off the taxi chart with where we had to be on the airfield at each minute to go. Nav would count us down. Obviously we needed to know where we were parking and in what direction we would be pointing. Takes 30 secs to turn a big jet gently through 180°. Then you have to line up the forward door with the red carpet. I had chinagraph marks on the DV window to line me up. BA once took I think HMQ to the States in Concorde, overshot the red carpet and had to be pushed back onto it
Where would we have been without them?