CABLE TO DIRECTOR FROM [DELETED] RE PURPOSE OF FLT INS TESTS AND ADF CHECKS

Created: 3/8/1963

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ADE FLT DURATION THO HOURS ANDINUTES. MAXIMUMAXIMUM0 FEET. PILOT JIM GIL ILL AND. PURPOSE OF FLT INS TESTS AND ADF CHECKS.

PILOT REPORTS INS WORKED SATISFACTORILY THROUGHOUT FLT WITH ERRORS REPORTED. AT BASS,. AT. AT CURRENT,. AT CALIENTE. USED AUTO NAVIGATION MODE FREQUENTLY AND WAS NOT SATISFIED AS KE SAID IT TENDED TO OVERSHOOT TOO MUCH'. FELT PROGRAMMING COULD BE IMPROVED.

IN ANTICIPATION OF FUTURE NIGHTCA APPROACH WAS ATTEMPTED BUT WAS NOT SATISFACTORY. PILOT SAID THE APPROACH IS MUCH TOO STEEP FOR THIS AIRCRAFT.

PILOT THENOUCH AND GO WITHFULL AB GO AROUND FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER WlTH^SjNGLE AS GO AROUND. REPORTED AIRCRAFT OF ON SINGLE AB AS LONG AS SAS IS WORKING.

APPROVED FCR RKLKASK DATE: 7

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was downwind with good chute deployment.

reported that cockpit is extremely uncomfortableimprovement is mandatory before long flightsoours),

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