RNAS Culdrose to have new digital control tower

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RNAS Culdrose to have new digital control tower

#1 Post by FD2 » Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:09 pm

Looks interesting - hope they have adequate back up power! The photo is an example of how it could look before the accountants have their say and it also gets bomb proofed.

https://www.forces.net/news/new-digital ... s-culdrose

Example of how remote air traffic control modules at RNAS Culdrose could look on curved screen wall 22021 CREDIT Saab.jpg

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#2 Post by PHXPhlyer » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:12 pm

What could possibly go wrong?

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#3 Post by llondel » Sat Feb 27, 2021 4:11 am

Nice idea when it's all working. You lose the depth perception though. It would be cheaper to give all the controllers a set of VR goggles and probably far more bomb-proof.

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#4 Post by FD2 » Sat Feb 27, 2021 4:40 am

Yes - that was the trouble with the S61 simulator in visual mode. It took a while to get used to depth and how far away a particular feature was. Eventually we could fly though the hangars if the doors were open, which had one poor guy scrabbling for the window, or anything in fact, after he'd just been put through his paces with multiple 'failures' IMC. Then someone passed a cup of coffee in through the window at 3,000ft...

The VR goggles sound like a good idea but far too cheap a solution. ;))) :ymdevil:

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#5 Post by CharlieOneSix » Sat Feb 27, 2021 3:29 pm

FD2 wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 4:40 am
..... after he'd just been put through his paces with multiple 'failures' IMC. Then someone passed a cup of coffee in through the window at 3,000ft...
Then there was the time when a Wessex was sitting in a 30ft hover dunking at night when the sonar operator/aircrewman climbed up the outside of the fuselage and offered one of the pilots a coffee. That was Leading Airman Edge if I remember correctly.
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.....Eventually we could fly though the hangars if the doors were open......
On my S61 conversion in Stavangar in the simulator, first session of cockpit drills, we eventually got both engines going and just before the pre-take off checks the simulator instructor, GN, who was new to the job unintentionally fired us off at a great rate of knots along the ground towards a hangar. Instinct took over and I grabbed a handful of collective and got airborne with no stabilsation engaged. Roars of laughter from GN in the back!
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#6 Post by FD2 » Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:11 pm

George (British Airways Helicopters) helping someone into a strop to be winched from the Aberdeen LIfeboat. Colin Larcombe (Bristow Helicopters) at the other end of the wire. Both former RN aircrew characters and sadly missed. RIP

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#7 Post by FD2 » Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:13 pm

C16 - If you got the right instructor you could wazz around a little between those sweaty IMC sessions to relax a little. Then you found out the sim didn't go tilt if you 'hit' buildings...

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#8 Post by CharlieOneSix » Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:30 pm

FD2 - I’d forgotten the coincidence with George and your ditching. Colin Larcombe was on the same squadron as me and became a good friend in Bristow. Sadly missed as you say - the Aircrewmans Association did him proud at his funeral.
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