Concernings about german aircraft fuel production in 1944/45

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes but they still got back..........

 

[Concorde247]

Yup - and repaired put back into service!!

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Yup - and repaired put back into service!!

3 MILES VISIBILITY - 1000 FOOT CEILING, DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT!

 

[bf109 Emil]

OK! I remember those things now!

But to land safely, you're still going to need at least 2 or 3 miles visibility and say an 800' ceiling and be dead nuts on with your navigation. Its hard enough flying through the soup, hoping to break out and have the runway right in front you under normal situations, imagine doing that with a shot up airplane, wounded crew on board, and enough fuel for one approach! If you mis judge your altitude or place yourself in a part of the sky that has growing terrain, well the saying is "he hit a granite cloud."

Although there were early Non Directional Beacons (NDB) these approaches are the hardest to track and fly, usually you needed about 1 mile and 1000'.

This problem plagued many returning RCAF and RAF bombing crews with for or morning mist and numerous airfields had a system of natural gas or fuel pots lite to help burn off the mist/fog so returning bombers could land safely, i fail to have scene this in a youtube video, but have scene fields lite up in books and WW2 films or documentaries...Wouldn't help as you say in a low ceiling, but was a continual hampering on returning night bomber pilots landing in Britain

bf109 Emil