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Just ask Talley: what was it like to train pilots to fly on instruments during wartime? Here's an inside view, complete with the cheap tequila.

Publication: IFR
Publication Date: 01-OCT-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Just ask Talley: what was it like to train pilots to fly on instruments during wartime? Here's an inside view, complete with the cheap tequila.(IFR DIARY)(Talley Kingston)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
After a couple years of editing IFR, I sometime think I'm at least familiar with most kinds of flying backgrounds. Then something comes in to remind me how little I know. This one came in the old-school, snail-mail way:

I am a very elderly lady who is still enough in love with planes to subscribe to five aviation publications. My experience with the round gauges dates back to WWII and my first job with the late Braniff Airways, giving Link training to young officers just graduated from Aviation Cadets--Talley Kingston.

What followed was a letter exchange that revealed one 89-year-old woman's experience of instrument training and life among the pilots of the Air Transport Command. Here ate highlights of that conversation.

What was the ATC?

After Pearl Harbor, plans that had been in the making during rumors of war were put into effect (in 1942, I believe), creating the Air Transport Command (ATC), which was a forerunner to the Military Air Transport Service (MATS). Along with new C47s being churned out by...

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