It’s time for another of my flying logbook tales and it’s May 1987 and I’m on the Australian FA18 No 2 Operational Conversion Unit at RAAF Williamtown starting the final phase on course 1 of 87 before moving onto No 77 Squadron which was to be my home for the next few years.

An FA/18B with a pair of BDU33 practice bomb carriers

The Salt Ash bombing range

A practice bomb strikes the centre of the target

The CCIP aiming symbology

Mk 82 500lb General Purpose bombs

RAAF Townsville

Mk82s hitting the target on Cordelia Island

Course graduation

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