NavList:

Howard G thanks for a very interesting post. Your south Pacific/Taman Sea experience in low powered piston aircraft contrasts with David P racing around Europe in his Vulcan.

Approximately what year did you use the drift sight method to Invercargill? You said there was no radio - could station 2YA (567kc/s,  100kw) have been used for rdf? The radio sitting beside me is tuned to 2YA rather than an FM station. During the recent cyclone Gabrielle  cell towers lost power and fibre optic cables were cut. It was realised that the only reliable form of passing information to residents was AM radio. I think that money will now be found to keep the AM network going.

On your flight to Norfolk Island did you use Chichester's offset method or did you aim directly for the island and rely on rdf to find it? On the flight did you know anything about Chichester - i.e.  had his flight been mentioned at navigation school? Many decades ago  I borrowed his book from the public library. It was this that gave me my interest in navigation.

I have three editions of DCT Bennett's Complete Air Navigator. - 1940, 1954 & 1967. This deals with British practice. Are you familiar wih this book?  Did the RNZAF follow  British or US practice?

David C