Originally Posted by
ipdanno
When I started C130 initial qual in the mid-80s, my IP told me to always look back at the navigator, to make sure he was wearing glasses. “Because he needs them?” I asked. “No.” he said. “If he’s not wearing glasses, you don’t know WHAT is wrong with him.”
Which is undoubtedly why WSOs always kept it in ‘aft initiate’ no matter what was briefed, since front seaters didn’t have obvious tells like that and you couldn’t see their faces much anyway...
