Everyone in the package seemed to be in place as I watched the air-to-air tacan steady to the briefed range. |
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I then tuned in channel 93 on my TACAN and received a good azimuth and a distance of 125 miles to Ubon Air Base. |
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I flipped up the TACAN mixer switch, and we were getting a good, strong ident. |
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I trimmed out the aircraft and was setting up my instruments for the TACAN approach when I looked up to see something very bad. |
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The delegation includes deputy undersecretaries Selim Yenel and Tacan Ildem as well as Turkish Ambassador to the USA Namik Tan. |
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We felt that the weather was staying the same with cloud layers right at TACAN minimums, and the visibility greater than 10 nm. |
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The C model is an advanced IFR trainer with additional navigational aids, such as dual attitude gyros, heading indicators, VOR, TACAN, ADF, ILS, and GPS systems. |
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With a failed RMI, I had no way to execute a TACAN approach. |
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We had the TACAN and final approach course dialed in, and showed very little deviation on the CDI, which caused us to doubt our navigation instruments. |
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Shortly after nightfall, and approximately 11 hours into a combat mission near hostile territory, the crew of WHISTLER 50 noticed a TACAN fault light on the copilot's side. |
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