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enlightenment

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11. I don't know.

Thu Feb 6, 2014, 11:59 AM

Feb 2014

I think they only operated over land routes in WWII but people still managed to fly over oceans using dead reckoning. They did have "weather ships" stationed near air routes, but I don't know if they transmitted navigational data. My dad (a navigator during the war) said he used maps, compass headings and his hand-held (manual) flight computer. Since I'm here, I assume that process worked.

RC, I'm not saying that the computers are a bad or useless tool. All I'm saying is that pilots should be able to fly and land an aircraft without those aids.

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