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Hello guys,

While I was searching informations for early trans-atlantic ferry flights of bombers from U.S. to England, I came across an old navigator log sheet on this website.

So I made an almost-exact replication of it, for those of you who like to do the navigator's job like they did back then.

It's available as a PDF -> here <-

The original :


My version :


The font in the PDF should look almost exactly like the original document's font, at least it does on my Mac (built-in font). I don't know if the font has been incorporated in the PDF itself. If it's net, please let me know.

Thanks!

Thomas.

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Thomas L. - Rookie Pilot & Navigator
B-17G & AccuSim fan.

Works ok on Windows, although, could you do it as two-page, instead of single one ?

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Chris Oleksy

Thanks for your feedback.

I've just uploaded a new version which is split on two pages. Indeed, that's much easier for printing it out

For those of you interested in the "double drift" technique, and in wind direction/velocity determination using a drift meter, here is an interesting document: USAF Air Navigation.

Thomas

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Thomas L. - Rookie Pilot & Navigator
B-17G & AccuSim fan.

This is very useful! Thanks!

btw, did anyone get the drift meter for MSFS to work? Got the se.x.tant working, including map addon, but not the drift meter.

Yep, I have it working with the B-17G. Just install the gauge, and add a view pointing straight down in the aircraft.cfg.

Then, open the view in a sub-window, and overlay the drift meter gauge over the view. Does the trick

Thomas

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Thomas L. - Rookie Pilot & Navigator
B-17G & AccuSim fan.

Thanks for the reply! Could you please provide the snippet from your aircraft.cfg? I'm not so good at this stuff.

I have put together a nav log in the shape of an MS Excel worksheet that does much of the work of the E6B. I thought I was going to convert it to the appearance of the form shown above.

My worksheet also does my fuel calculation and it holds my flightplan. Does anybody know where to find an authentic USAAF WW2 era flightplan form?

If I'm satisfied with the result maybe I will share my work.

Googling gets all kinds of results but not really what I want.

Though I have found a couple of logs here:
http://555navigator.blogspot.se/2009_04_01_archive.html

I'd be very grateful for any help!

/Mats

This is what I have collected this far, an AAF Form 21A-1 filled in by a 99th BG navigator on a mission to Regensburg.





A kind source posted these on another forum.http://forum.armyairforces.com/AAF-Form-21-Flightplan-and-Nav-Log-m223046.aspx

I also found the following page which has the same form by a B-24 navigator.
http://home.ionet.net/~heros/Bordenwww.htm

The text in the forms is as you can see a bit hard to make out and I have asked both sources for higher-resolution copies or help in text.

What I cannot work out by comparing or zooming in the pictures is:
-What date the form was approved? Top left corner of first page.

In the middle sheet:
- What are the sub-columns to "FUEL CONSUMPTION", "CELESTIAL DATA" and "RADIO BEARING WORK SHEET"

In the log part:
- What are the columns between "TIME" and "TEMP"?
- What's the column in between "AIR SPEED" and "WIND" with "RIGHT" and "LEFT" beneath it.
- Beneath "METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION" there are the columns "ABOVE PLANE" and "BELOW PLANE", what are the sub-columns?

If any of you guys have an example in your possesion, have better eyesight or knowledge than me, please help me out. I already have a combined flightplanning, E6B and nav-log sheet that is working quite well so the formulas and stuff is the easy part right now.

/Mats

I noticed in the log book several entries marked METRO to indicate gthe source of the ground speed information. Anybody know what this was. I am assumng it wa some sort of drift sight but am not sure.