COMBAT AND COMPETITION.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

GLOSSARY
CHAPTER ONE
1. "Spitfire into Battle" by Group Captain Duncan Smith. John Murray
(Publishers) Ltd.
2. I.O. Intelligence Officer.
3. A.B.T.A. All Bombs Target Area.
4. "France" from Selected Poems by Siegfried Sassoon. By permission of
George Sassoon.
CHAPTER TWO
1. "Flying Start" by Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas. Published by Stanley
Paul and Co. Ltd.
2. O.T.C. Officers Training Corps.
3. F.T.S. Flying Training School.
4. M.O. Medical Officer.
5. O.C.T.U. Officer Cadet Training Unit.
6. O.P. Observation Post.
7. K.R.s Kings Regulations.
8. A.C.I.s Army Council Instructions. In this case there was a parallel Air
Council Instruction (also A.C.I.) covering the secondment of Army
officers for flying duties with Army Cooperation Squadrons.
9. Motley Mounting. Described on page 13.
10. "Don't Keep the Vanman Waiting" by Adam de Hegedus. Published by
Staples Press Ltd.
11. O.T.U. Operational Training Unit.
12. Grading School. Described on page 19.
13. I.T.W. Initial Training Wing.
14. E.F.T.S. Elementary Flying Training School.
CHAPTER THREE
1. C.F.I. Chief Flying Instructor.
2. Glide Path Indicator. At the runway threshold. Showed amber if the
approach was too high, green if it was on the correct glide slope, and red
if it was too low.
3. S.F.T.S. Service Flying Training School.
4. A.F.U. Advanced Flying Unit.
5. Two Stage Amber. The special goggles only admitted amber light. The
flares and cockpit lights were both sodium yellow. Nothing was visible
to the pilot except the flare path and his instruments. Circuit planning
was difficult due to the limited angle of view.
6. P38. Lockheed Lightning. Long range twin engined fighter.
7. Drem Lighting System. Originating at Drem near Edinburgh in 1940. A
large circle of lights centred on the airfield - with a 'lead in' funnel -
lighting along both sides of the runway and twin glide path indicators.
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