John,

When a system was tight, it could be PFM!

Absolutely! Those were the hops A-6A B/Ns would "almost" give up a testicle
to fly. Usually one didn't know until airborne how nice things would be, so
every time you manned up you hoped for the best. Flying the OB-16 route at
night with a tight system was "the stuff dreams are made from." (Apologies
to Sam Spade / Humphrey Bogart.)

--
Mike Kanze

"John Kerry has promised to take this country back from the wealthy. Who
better than the guy worth $700 million to take the country back? See, he
knows how the wealthy think. He can spy on them at his country club, at his
place in Palm Beach, at his house in the Hamptons. He's like a mole for the
working man."

- Jay Leno


"John R Weiss" wrote in message
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"Mike Kanze" wrote...

I probably have a tighter CEP for manual range line attacks (a
typical form of A-6A degraded system attack) than for full-system work.

MRLs were still alive and well in the A-6E TRAM in the late 80s! I can't
claim a great CEP with them, but they worked with a good B/N.

OTOH, I got one of my bullseye patches with a 5' hit on a high loft with a
Mk76. When a system was tight, it could be PFM!