Name the place!

[Blue Maverick]

That's all correct we had our two crew navigators plus the Station nav and his mate on board. We even had a spare INS running and ready to swap. They used a technique call grid navigation once we got past 75N but in the end we reverted to dead reckoning until Radar picked up the subs then we did radar homing to find them.

We circled about a dozen times and when it was time to go home the instruction was go south and we all shouted which one?

We used the subs alignment to give us an initial heading then updated out position from radar fixes on the way south.

We did inflight refuelling on the way up and back, from a VC10 if i remember correctly. No problem finding them either time.
All jolly good fun for a 23 year old GD :-)

Oh pull up a sandbag why don’t you ;)

 

[Gelsons Dad]

OK back to Name the place. This one was taken from my boat last year.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

OK back to Name the place. This one was taken from my boat last year.

That’s got to be Heaton Park boating lake.

 

[RayCTID]

Coniston Water

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

edit to add this was all before GPS.

edit edit . This is a picture of us running in to the subs for the first time. We though we might try and sneak up on them but below 100' we couldn't make out the horizon anymore so had to climb a bit. the subs are the two dots in the distance.

Amazing how we all rely on GPS these days, but don't really appreciate how easily it can be switched off or otherwise disrupted (certainly commercial GPS signals). At least INS is pretty accurate these days with 'modern' Ring Laser Gyro's.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Amazing how we all rely on GPS these days, but don't really appreciate how easily it can be switched off or otherwise disrupted (certainly commercial GPS signals). At least INS is pretty accurate these days with 'modern' Ring Laser Gyro's.

Yes but the way they are integrated means that when you lose GPS (we have been going into Cairo for some time) the whole airplane has a wobble and a number of systems stop working.
Honeywell micro IRUs are the dogs balls though. 3 on the Cseries.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Coniston Water

not quite

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

OK back to Name the place. This one was taken from my boat last year.

Scapa Flow?

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Scapa Flow?

nope

 

[Phil1]

Off coast of Italy.