As a Navigator

I think as a navigator, there is no time during a flight, I mean, of particular I mean a war flight, for a sort of slackness or a, a kind of a, I wouldn’t say relaxation, not that aspect, that you always have to be on the bit in the sense and you always, that the key word really in the navigation world, is accuracy; that you must never be careless, that you’re always on the job and the thing is whatever information you can get, you must get, even if you think you don’t need it, it’s a case of never letting anything go that could be of help in the sense whether it’s visual or astronomic or whether it’s experience. It’s a continuous responsibility which you have, almost anything to do
with figures in terms of whether it’s direction or whether it’s calculation, it’s that demand that although it has to be done quickly and it has to be done accurately, and you have to have confidence. And you have to realize that everybody else in the air craft is relying on the fact that you’re gonna take them where you have to go and you’re going to take them back where they want to go.