Post by walterleo on Apr 10, 2016 15:25:32 GMT
Hi friends:
As I am think about how the guys up front in these old jets nearly every time arrived at time on their planed destinations and looking on the FS9 available navigation instrumetnst and aids one comes to the conclusion that FS9 and FSX lack important default devices less INS and GPS. So in some forums the question "Oh were was an GPS positioned in a Super Constelation?" is not so naive as it sounds: It was between the ears of its navigator!
Here is a link to an old report which explains very well the basic principles of air-navigation before INS and GPS:
adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1957JRASC..51..249H
Simulation of western airliners miss most of the necessary instruments and devices named in this paper. Not so the Russian simulation which from automatic astronavigation over compass systems (KS6 and KS8) and flight planing devices for polar and grid navigation (NCALC5), doppler radar ground speed and drift sensor to full analog flight computers for the R-Theta method (in Russian lingo NI-50 BM and NAS-6 and NV-PB) includes everything a pilot would need. Bad luck: Its all metric and the inscripitions are in Russian. So including them into a e.g. CV 990 has its drawbacks. LORAN was used widely in the old jets and it was till 1979 a very painsticking manual work analyzing the signals with a cathode tube. 1979 came out LORAN KLN 88 looking very the same and working as the later GPS KLN 90, offering a low cost alternative to the heavy and cumbersome INS boxes of that time.
Phantasizing a little about that a Swissair-Spantax cockpit could have looked like that:
And the real Swissair main panel before INS:
1) Doppler Radar GS/drift indicator 2) FD selectors
Here a real Swissair Coronado´s Navigator station.
1) doppler radar GS and Drift
2)Cathode tube and switches below for LORAN
3)Flight data recorder
4)cronometer
Kind regards
Walter
As I am think about how the guys up front in these old jets nearly every time arrived at time on their planed destinations and looking on the FS9 available navigation instrumetnst and aids one comes to the conclusion that FS9 and FSX lack important default devices less INS and GPS. So in some forums the question "Oh were was an GPS positioned in a Super Constelation?" is not so naive as it sounds: It was between the ears of its navigator!
Here is a link to an old report which explains very well the basic principles of air-navigation before INS and GPS:
adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1957JRASC..51..249H
Simulation of western airliners miss most of the necessary instruments and devices named in this paper. Not so the Russian simulation which from automatic astronavigation over compass systems (KS6 and KS8) and flight planing devices for polar and grid navigation (NCALC5), doppler radar ground speed and drift sensor to full analog flight computers for the R-Theta method (in Russian lingo NI-50 BM and NAS-6 and NV-PB) includes everything a pilot would need. Bad luck: Its all metric and the inscripitions are in Russian. So including them into a e.g. CV 990 has its drawbacks. LORAN was used widely in the old jets and it was till 1979 a very painsticking manual work analyzing the signals with a cathode tube. 1979 came out LORAN KLN 88 looking very the same and working as the later GPS KLN 90, offering a low cost alternative to the heavy and cumbersome INS boxes of that time.
Phantasizing a little about that a Swissair-Spantax cockpit could have looked like that:
And the real Swissair main panel before INS:
1) Doppler Radar GS/drift indicator 2) FD selectors
Here a real Swissair Coronado´s Navigator station.
1) doppler radar GS and Drift
2)Cathode tube and switches below for LORAN
3)Flight data recorder
4)cronometer
Kind regards
Walter
