Dickson stressed the importance of instrument flying, often having his crews fly training operations at night or in adverse weather conditions.
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The Wessex was the first of the RAF's helicopters in which instrument flying, and thus night time operations, were realistically viable.
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Fortunately, the group had already met many of the requirements by then, two glaring exceptions being instrument flying and rocket firing.
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He spent much of the remainder of the year learning instrument flying on the Link Trainer, and undertaking a parachute training course.
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Factors were a failure of the vacuum pump and the pilot's lack of recent experience in partial panel instrument flying or training.
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The flight instructor " stated that the pilot's basic instrument flying skills and simulator work were excellent, " according to the report.
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The second was the " full panel " attitude system of instrument flying, which is credited with revolutionizing training in blind flying.
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Soon afterwards he returned to the ZVS to learn instrument flying and receive training in piloting heavy transport aircraft logging another 50 hours.
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Much of the pioneering work of Major William Ocker and Captain Charles Crane in the field of instrument flying took place at Kelly.
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The 2nd phase of the course sees the students progress onto more advanced flying, including instrument flying, low level navigation and formation flying.
