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Tempest123
01-14-2011, 05:14 PM
Does it have RDF equipment? I cant find it, but I can tune the beacons.

JG53Frankyboy
01-14-2011, 06:26 PM
As the most allied Planes most propably only YG works.
Receiving the NDB , as almost all planes can, does Not mean you can use it. The correct instrument is needed to.

Tempest123
01-14-2011, 06:30 PM
Ah, k thanks.

bolox
01-14-2011, 07:22 PM
well it does and it doesn't:-P

there is a suitable gauge
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff27/bolox00/brit%20gauges/beamapproachgauge.jpg
but it's non functional

blind landing equip was not really operational in RAF till post war from what i can make out.

one thing i've tried messing with is using lorenz lr beacon as a fake 'gee'- ride the audio beam and drop bombs on 'arrival'- can be fun?

Tempest123
01-14-2011, 08:13 PM
Okay, that's the gauge I was looking at, but in the cockpit guide its labeled "bomb bay doors" or something like that, it just didn't seem right. I'm trying to get a few night mosquito missions going, don't need the use of a blind landing system, just navigation beacons, but if the gauge is non functional it might be a no go.

Ian Boys
01-14-2011, 08:18 PM
Like the idea of the Gee beam

Tempest123
01-14-2011, 09:27 PM
well it does and it doesn't:-P

there is a suitable gauge
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff27/bolox00/brit%20gauges/beamapproachgauge.jpg
but it's non functional

blind landing equip was not really operational in RAF till post war from what i can make out.

one thing i've tried messing with is using lorenz lr beacon as a fake 'gee'- ride the audio beam and drop bombs on 'arrival'- can be fun?

Like 'Oboe'? is there a way to trigger a signal on arrival?

bolox
01-14-2011, 09:46 PM
if you position beacon just before target- when you fly down the beam it goes silent as you fly overhead , drop bombs:grin:

Ian Boys
01-15-2011, 08:55 AM
Why not use the outer marker or inner marker tones?

bolox
01-15-2011, 08:51 PM
Why not use the outer marker or inner marker tones?

you can:) the inner marker tones make a good bomb release at~300km/h 5km- possibly too good a marker.
to me this is a reasonable approximation of knickebien, flying the 'wrong way' down the beam and dropping on silence makes a 'different' RAF system (geeH/oboe). that's my (twisted) logic anyway:-P

let's see what mission builders come up with

Azimech
01-15-2011, 11:23 PM
Reads interesting. i'm going to experiment with that.