[GH85Carrera]

My dad talked about some of the pilot training he received. Back at the start of his career in the 1950s obviously there were no GPS and computers to aid in navigation. Flying at night over the ocean had to be rather scary, as there is nothing but blackness to look at. They were just transitioning away from one system used in WW2 that was for flying to a vector point. One tone in one ear was a beep beep at one rate, and the other ear received a different rate beeping. If you were dead on course you heard a constant tone as the beeps merged into one. If you drifted to one side or the other, the tone in one ear was dominate, so the pilot knew to correct course.

Now imagine flying for hours over and hearing a constant tone at best or a beep beep if off course. He was glad that was replaced by instruments that picked up the radio signal and a needle showed the deviation off course.

JFK Jr died trying to fly at night over the ocean. Dad flew from Hawaii to all sorts of pacific ocean islands at night. Landing on a pinpoint of land in the middle of thousands of miles of water. He did have a navigator on board, and their job was to get them to the right speck. Dad talked about one mission were they were supposed to go to an island, and the navigator gave him the coordinates to fly towards. Dad called the navigator up to the windshield, and asked what is that large object in the sky. The navigator said, "oh crap, the moon is in the wrong place!" and went back to get the right course computed.