...so there I was, at 10,000 ft in my shiny new FM-2, trying to pick up the Hawaii YG beacon I'd placed on the map, by my destination. Faintly at first, but getting louder I hear it, but what was the signal? dit-dit-dah-dit? or was that dit-dah-dit-dit? a minute or so later, I figure it out dit-dah-dit-dit,
then dit-dit-dah-dit. I swing round to a heading of 120°, and a few minutes later the island appears on the horizon, bang on the nose. I turn to 90° and start to lose height, wait until the signal goes dit-dit-dit, then as soon as I hear dah-dit-dit, swing round and drop down on a heading of 190° or so, nicely lined up on the Ford Island runway as it comes into sight.
Excellent work with the navigation aids (and everything else) TD.
