Jim Wilson writes: > What information that I am aware of would indicate an "RMI". > Correct me if I'm wrong but these RMI units had a dial/card/rose > attached to a gyro and thus operated like the gyro compass on the > hsi. The large arrow was ADF and the small arrow pointed toward a > VOR transmitter. But my understanding is VOR is post-WWII. Of > course it is possible that the D/K series was fitted post WWII with > these, but I have yet to find a picture of a cockpit not refitted > with modern G/A that doesn't have this instrument.
A double ADF indicator would make a fair bit of sense -- with primitive equipment and no navigator, the pilot workload would be fairly high, and two needles would help a lot for triangulating a position (especially if the pilot would otherwise have to reach behind the seat to change frequencies). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
