Subject: Flight Lessons
From: Steve
Date: 8/7/03 1:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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Thanks, Art. I appreciate everything you write. I'm kind of curious for no
good reason; how far would you have had to fly to get a handle on
cross-winds?
Assuming the weather guys didn't have any info for you, would you know on an
on-going basis how far you were

being pushed sideways, or would you have to fly
a while and compare your dead reckoning with something else? What else would
you
have available on a typical mission? (I don't know anything about navigation,
you
won't insult me by talking down)


We would get winds aloft at briefings. But we flew all our missions in daylight
usually under pretty good conditions and pilotage did us fine, That is where
you look out the window, check with a map and find your wayusually with no
trouble. But we ALWAYS laid out a dead reckoning solution on every mission no
matter what. Also we alway knew what our ETA to every check point was and when
to expect important checkpoints, like the Rhine, The Moselle, the Meuse rivers.
The RAF guys in the heavies flying at night had a nightmare compared to us,

Arthur Kramer
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer