Landing Headcam with crew audio 

+Bill Ramsey What a wonderful and very impressive video and thank you very much for that explanation. I am not a pilot and only have little knowledge about navigation. I was wondering how navigation was performed with that "old" instruments on board while flying . Did you use VOR/ADF/NDB also? May be as backup? I can imagine that using a tablet with gps and moving map is very comfortable but may be not certified.

+Uwe Mobil Thanks for your question. No we had no VOR/ADF or NDB. Not much use to us anyway as we nearly always flew at low-level. You are right the iPads were not our primary nav kit. The aircraft had two further GPS but our primary tool was the old fashioned map and stopwatch. Beyond that most of the pilots were very experienced fast-jet aircrew with many years of operating at low-level in the UK behind us. You end up with a pretty good map in your head!

+Bill Ramsey Thank you so much for you answer. I am very much impressed of the history of XH558 and have big respect for you and all other members of the team. They are really cool professionals.

Silly question but how did you connect to the WiFi in the aircraft to connect to the maps online?

Sky Denon is great! I don't fly without it

Keep dreaming

Once seen, never forgotten. It was a very capable and agile aircraft for its size, and in its day. The irony was that the only time it was used in combat was to bomb our own airfield. There's nobody left alive who really knows those engines, and metal fatigue takes its toll on the engines and airframe, unfortunately. It also cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to fly for each day's displays. Fuel alone was a big expense for the small team of volunteers who kept it flying for as long as it could. But engines and airframe repairs would be hideously expensive; many millions of pounds. The Vulcan is as old as me, and I'm retired. Very few jets of that age and service workload can still be flown, unless they have been almost completely rebuilt from new parts. I grew up hearing the thunderous roar of Vulcans and Lightnings flying from airbases around Lincolnshire, and still live within about 30 miles of three intact airframes; XH558, plus one at Waddington and another at the Newark Air Museum, but both of the latter have been standing outdoors for decades. The Waddington 'guardian' has very faded paintwork now, and it's cockpit was cannibalised for 558. (We drove past it last month.) The Newark one looks really tatty on Google Maps. It would be wonderful to see a full size replica flying, with more modern engines installed. That would please millions of people around the globe. There is one remaining Vulcan which stands a slight chance of being made airworthy, but with present worldwide economic woes, that is not very likely to happen in a hurry. We live in hope.

John Wiggin looooool! :-)

Wing Commander Bill Ramsey. I know he could and does teach many pilots how to do it properly 😊

Buccaneer had the same type.

The handley page victor had a ‘bomber wheel’ because it was a heavy bomber. The Avro Vulcan had a fighter stick because the plane itself thought it was a fighter and flew accordingly.

+Nick Cooper Vulcans are massively more complicated than spitfire's, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be feasible without the original industry, but if anyone thinks they can please please please do, I would love to see a Vulc still flying,

+Streaky100001 I don't think it could possibly be anything like a real vulcan under its skin, and it would cost several millions of pounds. I would love it if this was possible though. let's face it, so many people wish it had never gone out of service/production.

+chris reaney Yeah, would be nice, and it might be doable, but sadly I doubt it.

+chris reaney there are still a few in working order like one at bruntingthorpe and it wouldnt be hard to find parts its just the cost to keep it flying and fatigue of the airframe

+Plutonium_Panda69 - It's not just the fact that the airframe is becoming harder to certify; the systems are becoming difficult to support as the experts in them retire. Anything is possible if you have enough funding; a replica steam loco, Tornado, has been built and went into traffic in 2008. They tried to keep it "original", but many modern construction techniques were used under the skin as a matter of practicality and cost. You could build a new aircraft to the Vulcan shape, but expect it to cost many, many times more than the £3 million or so that Tornado cost. The paperwork to get certification will cost more than £3 million!

+Matthew Holmes Pretty sure they use the tablet for several things, including checklists and weather reports.

+Streaky100001 And nav.

+Streaky100001 Candy Crush Saga during boring transits...(!)

+Elliot L- CBGSpotter Oh yeah, forgot that one :)

+John Douglas lol, I hope not :)

If it’s because it’s got no thumb, I cut mine so I can use touchscreens.

+fourbeepaws maps, any info the pilot needs

Radio mics!

Helipeek well, wouldn't it be easier to use a hand mike and loudspeakers?, also more comfortable?